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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32338 Meredith, Christopher. Sidereal Time. 1998.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32844 Bidgood, Ruth. The Given Time. 1972.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32856 Bidgood, Ruth. Time Being. 2009.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34693 Jacobson, Howard. Zoo Time. 2012.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35732 Barnes, Julian. The Noise of Time. 2016.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35797 Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. 2016.
Swing Time (2016) arrived surrounded by the halo of music, dance, and stardom, and it delivered a new form of narrating some of Zadie Smith’s most pressing concerns. The title of the novel refers to the eponymous musical (Stevens 1936) and, as Jeffrey Eugenides (2016) points out, it is also a hint to Smith’s preoccupation with time, which she had also explored in her previous novel, NW (2012). Equally present are the topics of female friendship, the relationship with one’s past, and the pervasiveness and insidiousness of colonialism. Even though the novel covers familiar ground, Swing Time came with a twist: it was the first time Smith wrote in the first person. In the interviews following the publication of the novel, she expressed some reservations about writing in the first person because she did not believe it could offer the same flexibility as the third person. The use of a first-person narrator allowed Smith to interrogate subjectivity differe
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39038 Alvi, Moniza. At the Time of Partition. 2013.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=438 Williams, William Carlos. The Knife of the Times. 1932.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=857 Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. 1963.
In 1963, Baldwin's words electrified the world as The Fire Next Time ricocheted across the Atlantic and beyond, following the publication of two essays that comprise it in The Progressive and The New Yorker the year before: “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” and “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind”. While the huge sales of this book and its presence on bestseller lists solidified Baldwin's stature as one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals in the United States, its praises and critiques re-cast his reputation in deepened racialized tones. As F.W. Dupee proclaimed in the New York Review of Books , “As a writer of polemical essays on the Negro question James Baldwin has no equals. He probably has, in fact, no real competitors. The literary role he has taken on so deliberately and played with so agile an intelligence is one that no white writer could possibly imita
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2928 Greene, Robert. Pandosto: The Triumph of Time. 1588.
