Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us but chooses to queer time and turn it into an ally of unbound forms of understanding identities.

Through the analysis of different media--literature, cinema, and video games--the chapters revolve around three key ideas: that there are inherently queer styles of using and dealing with time and temporality in culture; that the critical rediscovery of canonical texts and the analysis of largely ignored queer texts and authors allow for a better understanding of queer identities; and, finally, that normative conceptions of time can--and should--be challenged through critical tools that reconceptualize notions of the self around time.

This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working close to areas such as queer and gender studies, media and cinema studies, cultural studies, literary theory, comparative literature, game studies, and art history.

Juan Francisco Belmonte Ávila is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Murcia (Spain). His research focuses on the study of gender and sexuality in video games and has recently published his work in journals such as Continuum: A Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and The Journal of American Culture.

Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo is Assistant Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her research focuses on gender in postwar American poetry. She is the author of Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women (2023) and co-editor of ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art (2021)