Framed Slowness and the Ecological Value of Multiperspectivity

Adopting a cognitive and econarratological perspective, this article explores the use of framing strategies for slowness as a way in which multiperspective narratives may foreground the complex entanglement of human and more-than-human temporalities. By introducing the concept of ‘framed slowness,’ I aim to describe a slow way of experiencing narrative elicited by the use of segmentivity and other framing devices…

Reading for Distance

Form, Memory, and Space in Contemporary Novels of Migration

Migration is one of the most defining issues of the 21st century. Indeed, mobility scholar Thomas Nail has defined the twenty-first century “the century of the migrant.” Contemporary fiction is also greatly invested in the exploration of the phenomenon, and when we read fictions of migration, we expect certain patterns and themes: from hybridization and ambivalence, first-person and past-tense narratives, and a certain degree of autofiction, to the inclusion of magical…