This article examines the different manifestations of alternative temporalities in Ali Smith’s Goldsmiths Award novel How to be Both (2014). My argument is that the novel ‘queers’ understandings of time in two significant ways: by highlighting new possibilities of narrative structure that challenge linear conceptions of time and by questioning regulated notions of developmental temporalities in terms of progression from childhood to heteronormative adulthood. Hence, by drawing on the compelling framework of queer temporalities, the main goal of this article is to analyze the mechanisms deployed by Ali Smith to generate unprecedented configurations of queer time.
The paper discusses Wackwitz’s Novels and Essays with postcolonial and queer theories to point out how Wackwitz tells European history as a colonial history from the 20th century until today. Wackwitz designs the project of decolonization of Central and Eastern Europe including the deconstruction of the heteronormative gender order as a dispositive of power.
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Der Aufsatz diskutiert Wackwitz’ Romane und Essays im Kontext des Postkolonialismus und der Queer Studies um zu zeigen, wie der Autor mitteleuropäische Geschichte vom Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart als Kolonialgeschichte erzählt. Wackwitz entwirft in seinen Texten das Projekt einer Dekolonisation Mitteleuropas, das auch die Dekonstruktion der heteronormativen Geschlechterordnung als Dispositiv der Macht miteinschließt.
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