Reconsiderando los cronotopos queer en literatura: Una intervención crítica desde el análisis cultural
Resumen
This article proposes a queer chronotopic approach to literature and culture by re-adapting Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope in dialogue with current queer criticism. Drawing on cultural analysis, the study examines the intersections between queer studies and the chronotope as a generative literary concept. The term queer is unpacked across its cultural, political, philosophical, and literary dimensions, tracing its shift from identity-based sexual politics to a deconstructive strategy for literary interpretation. The field of queer temporality is then mobilized to theorize queerness as a temporal experience that deviates from linear, progressive, and teleological schemes. The chronotope is critically reassessed and expanded beyond its original formulation, examining how time-space configurations generate literary meaning and articulate sociocultural worldviews. A brief analysis of the domestic space in The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) illustrates how a queer chronotope assembles anachronistic objects and cultural memory to critique the neoliberal assimilation.
The article argues that queer chronotopes operate through anachronistic time-space configurations that refuse hegemonic cultural frameworks and reject normative agendas of assimilation and progress. Rather than offering a closed methodology, this critical intervention opens a flexible interpretive path in which ambiguities, dissonant temporalities, and cultural memory become productive sites for queer readings of narrative.
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