Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games.

• Author: Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco.
• TeilnehmendeR: Encarnación-Pinedo, Estíbaliz.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2024.; ©2025.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities, and will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working in areas such as Gender Studies, Media Studies, Literature, Game Studies, and Art History.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Queer Time Unbound -- Section I (Un)Formalizing Queer Times -- 2 In Perfect (a)Synchrony: Queer Style in The Line of Beauty -- 3 "I Am Where I Need to Be": Queer Homemaking in Fulbright's Gone Home -- 4 Identity in the In-Between: Narrative Temporality and the Queer Experience in Tangerine and Moonlight -- 5 Disruptions to the Linear and Individual Narrative of Psychic Distress in Mike Barnes's The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth, and Metamorphosis -- 6 Re-Temporalizing Trauma Through Gameplay in Gibson and Swanwick's "Dogfight -- 7 Disrupting Binaries and Linearities: Queer and Trans Temporalities in Imogen Binnie's Nevada -- Section II Unearthing Queer Times -- 8 Queer Memory and the Brown Commons -- 9 Time, Memory, and Queer Sensibility in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- 10 A Faded Photograph: Ghosts, Specters, and Other Phantoms in Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers -- 11 "Be Three Now": Queering the Postwar Heterosexual Marriage in Ann Quin's Three -- 12 The Rogue as a Queer Agent in Video Games: The Picaresque Novel Legacy -- Section III Unbinding Queer Time -- 13 Genesis Noir and Cosmological Time: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang -- 14 Posthuman Temporalities and Shared Timings: Kinship in the Work of Jim Jarmusch -- 15 "All the Ages We've Shaped Together": Examining Queer Genealogies, Science Fiction and Non-Linear Storytelling Through El-Mohtar and Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) -- 16 Unbound and Loving It!: Pleasure, Dressage and Queer Rhythmic Resistance in Monáe's Dirty Computer -- 17 Imagining Neuroqueer Futures: Crip Time and Care-Ful Connections in Night in the Woods -- Index.