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Another Time, Another Place
Author(s) -
Jolly Margaret
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1999.tb00374.x
Subject(s) - temporality , modernity , narrative , context (archaeology) , postmodernity , situated , relation (database) , colonialism , sociology , chronotope , history , aesthetics , gender studies , anthropology , epistemology , literature , art , philosophy , archaeology , database , artificial intelligence , computer science
This paper explores the way in which the languages of space and time condense and how the values of spatiotemporal fluidity and fixity are gendered. It considers several narratives from South Pentecost, Vanuatu, stories of primordial beings and of more proximate ancestors which alike stress women's association with flight and flood. Such narratives are situated in the context of labour migration in colonial history and more recent patterns of migration to towns. Here too, the movement of men and women is differentially constructed. These processes are considered in the context of recent feminist theories of the relation of spatiality and temporality, in modernity and ‘postmodernity’.