1st Edition

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema Negotiating with Timelessness

By Ila Ahlawat Copyright 2021
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered... Read more
Acknowledgement, Introduction: Remembering to Forget, Chapter 1: The Sibyl and the Hanging Jar, Chapter 2: Sibyl and the Crazed Painting, Chapter 3: Molloy and his Mother in the Room, Chapter 4: Dreaming in Loops in the Westworld, Chapter 5: Locating the Beginning and the End in the Triangle, Conclusion: Losing it all in the Head, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Dr Ila Ahlawat has been teaching university courses in English and Gender Studies for over five years. She currently teaches in the School of Social Communication at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. She is most fond of remembering and most terrified of forgetting.