أطراس
Volume 7, Numéro 1, Pages 217-228
2026-01-15
The 'meanwhile' As Counter-time: Non-linear Temporality And The Re-imagination Of The Future In Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography Of My Mother And Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
Authors : Kanté Lassana .
Abstract
Meanwhile is a concept developed by Lauren Berlant to explain ‘a space of suspension wanting, and unfinished becoming.’ In opposition to linear progress or Teleological resolutions, meanwhile represents a space of indeterminate transition where historical trauma, colonial residues and displacement converge with times of fragile agency and emotional endurance. The present paper examines the way Caribbean women writers Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat use narrative structuration questioning the time in The Autobiography of my Mother and The Dew Breaker. Through close readings, the present paper seeks to explore the way Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat refuse to linear temporality associated with healing, nation-building and emancipation. In this paper, we seek to explore the way both novels resist the linear temporalities associated with healing, historicity, and emancipation. This study offers a poetics of temporal fragmentation that foregrounds endurance, ambiguity, and memory.
Keywords
meanwhile ; linear progress ; teleological resolutions ; trauma ; colonial ; temporality
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