The Contradictory Simultaneity of Being with Others

Exploring Concepts of Time and Community in the Work of Gloria AnzaldúA

Bibliographic Data

ID3947073
AuthorsM Bastian (0000-0002-0043-7582, Edinburgh College, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume97
Issue1
Pages151-167
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2010.34
OpenAlexW2123329664
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited25

While social geographers have convincingly made the case that space is not an external constant, but rather is produced through inter-relations, anthropologists and sociologists have done much to further an understanding of time, as itself constituted through social interaction and inter-relation. Their work suggests that time is not an apolitical background to social life, but shapes how we perceive and relate to others. For those interested in exploring issues such as identity, community and difference, this suggests that attending to how temporal discourses are utilised in relation to these issues is a key task. This article seeks to contribute to an expansion of the debate about time and sociality by contributing an analysis of a variety of ways in which Gloria Anzaldúa utilises temporal concepts as part of her work of rethinking social identity and community. In particular, I suggest that in contesting homogeneous identity, Anzaldúa also implicitly contests linear temporal frameworks. Further, in creating new frameworks for identity, I suggest the possibility of discerning an alternative approach to time in her work that places difference at the heart of simultaneity. I suggest that the interconnection between concepts of time and community within Anzaldúa's work indicates, more broadly, that attempts to rework understandings of relationality must be accompanied by reworked accounts of temporality

Aesthetics · Chronotope · Epistemology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Simultaneity · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Temporality · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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