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Hidden in Plain Sight: Deep Time and American Literature

Cécile Roudeau

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Deep time has recently been uncovered and recovered as one of the scales of literary scholarship (Dimock, Luciano, Gee...); but it is not yet a cold object. In fact, we may have been too fast in enrolling deep time in the paradoxes of our turn-of-the-millennium desire for newness as we scrupulously build the sepulchres of nations and turn a blind eye to the shorter durée of human history. Now is the time, this issue of Transatlantica would like to suggest, to restore deep time itself to a longer durée and reassess its analytical potential and its validity as critique. This issue of Transatlantica is an attempt to both think of Deep Time as a historical concept that literature has helped develop in its own way and assess the impact of our current reshuffling of epistemic scales not only on the making up of literary narratives but also on our ways of reading literature today, in the age of the Anthropocene.

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hal-01513044 , version 1 (24-04-2017)

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Cécile Roudeau (Dir.). Hidden in Plain Sight: Deep Time and American Literature . 2015, 765-2766. ⟨hal-01513044⟩
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