Living Bodies, not a Straight Line.
Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Fiction
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“They are born, they grow up, and they die is a classic narrative” (Salgado, 2023): few formulas are as effective at condensing a life. Beneath its apparent descriptive neutrality, the classic narrative of existence organizes time as a straight line oriented toward the future, gives meaning to life stages, and establishes which paths are worth living and which are irrelevant. Like a text, this way of seeing history has been enriched by its cultural repetition, presented as the only path, the example of a desirable life, as self-evident: as if time were nothing more than what happens between steps, to see how much we have accumulated, how much we have accomplished, what comes next. In contrast to this temporal economy, queer temporalities do not simply propose other rhythms or trajectories, but rather question the very idea that a life must adhere to a linear, progressive, and teleological logic.
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