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  • Zaid Razzaq Sadeq
    Ministry of Education, Najaf Governorate Directorate, Iraq

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Keywords:

Hyperreal fragmented reality

Abstract

Rejecting canonical narrative forms and ideas, postmodern literature presents a fresh perspective on the passage of time and geographical location. In contrast to the linear and cohesive representations of time and space expected in modernist literature, postmodernist works often embrace dislocation, fragmentation, and distorted timelines. Through metafiction, intertextuality, and non-linear tales, this study investigates how postmodern writers question traditional ideas of space and time. These methods show time as cyclical, irrelevant, or fluid, which disrupts the reader's perception of a steady, chronological development. Similarly, postmodern literature frequently portrays space as hyperreal, fragmented, or disjointed, reflecting a world where the lines between the tangible and the abstract are increasingly blurred. This study analyses seminal postmodern works to see how these changed views of space and time fit into a more extensive critique of postmodern reality, identity, and meaning stability. According to the results, postmodern literature does more than make us rethink the passage of time; it also prompts us to wonder what it means to exist.


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ABSTRACT

Rejecting canonical narrative forms and ideas, postmodern literature presents a fresh perspective on the passage of

time and geographical location. In contrast to the linear and cohesive representations of time and space expected in

modernist literature, postmodernist works often embrace dislocation, fragmentation, and distorted timelines.

Through metafiction, intertextuality, and non-linear tales, this study investigates how postmodern writers question

traditional ideas of space and time. These methods show time as cyclical, irrelevant, or fluid, which disrupts the

reader's perception of a steady, chronological development. Similarly, postmodern literature frequently portrays

space as hyperreal, fragmented, or disjointed, reflecting a world where the lines between the tangible and the abstract

are increasingly blurred. This study analyses seminal postmodern works to see how these changed views of space and

time fit into a more extensive critique of postmodern reality, identity, and meaning stability. According to the results,

postmodern literature does more than make us rethink the passage of time; it also prompts us to wonder what it

means to exist.

KEYWORDS

Hyperreal, fragmented, reality, identity, meaning stability.

INTRODUCTION

Postmodernism is a complex term with multiple

meanings. It emerged in the 1960s and gained

popularity in the latter half of the 20th century.

Modernist writing developed throughout the first half

Research Article

POSTMODERNIST VIEWS OF TIME AND SPACE IN LITERATURE

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Zaid Razzaq Sadeq

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of the century, and postmodern writing developed

after the ending of modernism. Most generally,

"postmodern" can be used to describe a contemporary

style of literature and art whose aim is to break apart

or deconstruct the conventions and ideas already

prevalent in literary studies. It can also be used to

reflect a keen interest in both fragments and surfaces,

and in escapism

usually achieved through a technique

called "magic realism". Another important strategy

used by representatives of postmodernism is the

adoption of parody, pastiche, the mixing of genres, the

use of intertextuality, as well as the embrace of "new

narrative forms".

According to postmodern theorists and writers, the

distinguishing feature of postmodern literature is its

reliance on irony; capitalizing on the skeptical outlook

on life characterizing the age, postmodernists

primarily employ irrealism, subjectivism, and parody in

the literature they write. Finally, "postmodern" and

"postmodernity" are linked to a new means of

organizing societies; according to postmodern

theorists, societies have entered a new epoch of

modernity

that

is

increasingly

marked

by

postmodernity. Postmodern is also associated with the

term "post-structuralism". In postmodern and

poststructuralist thinking, concepts such as "time" and

"space" are governed by a plethora of discourses and

power relations, and meanings assigned to these

concepts are contested and shifting, yet are of the

utmost significance in any society, as they help

construct our sense of ourselves and the social and

physical worlds.

Definition and Characteristics of Postmodernism

Postmodernism is characterized by its focus on

surface, paradox, and play, as well as skepticism and

the expansion of binary oppositions. However, these

aspects are general and depend on whom one asks for

a definition of postmodernism, to some extent. Spatial

and temporal formats will change with the passage of

time in terms of new modernist and postmodernist

definitions of time and space when reading literature.

Postmodernist perspectives on time and space will be

discussed in this regard, and within this scope, new

perspectives on postmodern time and space, along

with their representations in literature, will be

examined.

The term "post-modern" denotes a state that comes

after the modern. In the realm of literature, the term

pertains to a specific mode that has been present since

the late forties, where it evolved into a new genre after

establishing its influence in contemporary instances of

painting, science, philosophy, and architecture. It is

considered a type of genre that comes after the

modernist era and is not necessarily based on a clear-

cut set of principles that showcase an attachment to

modernism as a prerequisite for any manifestation that

can be categorized as postmodern. The postmodern


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experience involves a different set of conditions and a

different kind of worldview. A detailed study of

postmodern writings can help highlight the

characteristics of postmodern literature, including

shapeless, fragmented, non-linear, heterogeneous,

intertextual, parodic, and deconstructive.

Key Theoretical Concepts in Postmodern Literature

Postmodernism is based on relativism. It denies the

idea of a unique truth, but on the other hand, it sees

the potential for a multiplicity of truths. Consequently,

time and space appear as fluid, relative, and multiple.

Another very important feature of postmodern texts is

intertextuality - a dialogue with other texts or other

discourses. Therefore, postmodern texts are full of

various quotes, allusions, and intertextual links, and

time and space are often symbolic. Consequently,

postmodernist texts often describe motion in time and

space. The era called the Postmodernist Period is the

heyday of the Age of the Information Revolution. As a

result, the media flood cultural products that show a

quick and shallow interchange of information, values,

and customs throughout the world.

Time and space, as reflexes of historical changes, are

well described by the French philosopher Gilles

Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Felix Guattari.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari approach time and

space through the difference between molar and

molecular. According to the authors, "The difference in

nature is the inseparability of things as they actually are

and of the virtual elements from which they result." A

molar point of view on time and space is a static one.

This point of view assumes clear-cut and distinct

categories concerning time and space, such as past or

present; date; era; space on a map, etc. Consequently,

the molar vision perceives time and space as separate

and swallows up things. Moreover, molarity - spatial

and chronological values - has a symbolic character.

Instead of a molar vision of time and space, we can

support the molecular one, according to which there

can be an excess of time - Aion. Aion can flow in

contrary or indeterminate ways of becoming. Similarly,

Aion is also multiple because it results from the "unfold

of multiple possible and virtual points of view." Aion is

an integral part of time. It means that time comprises

both Chronos and Aion.

TIME AND SPACE AS FLUID CONCEPTS IN

POSTMODERN LITERATURE

The idea of time and space has undergone a dramatic

change in the literature of postmodernism. Many of

the significant advancements of postmodern thought

recognize the fluidity of time and space. The

undefined/free association between physical (history,

world) and psychological (memory) have been

inherited by the postmodernist authors from their

modernist ancestors and contemporaries, such as T.S.

Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William

Faulkner. The combined effect of the two world wars,


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political disturbances in Russia, China, Cuba, and Asia,

inclination towards socialism, the highly advanced

stage of technology, and the social and economic

displacement that followed since 1945 onwards

effected radical changes in the way humans perceived

the world. Several significant advances were made in

the realms of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud;

sociology by Victor Turner; history by Michel Foucault,

Roland Barthes, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Claude

Levi-Strauss; and literature by Mikhail Bakhtin and

Antonin Artaud.

Though variously analyzed and labeled in different

socio-historical

paradigms

as

dislocation

and

displacement, collapse of literacy and collapse of grand

narratives, the culmination in the postmodern era was

the explanatory paradigm for the cultural disorder that

prompted a radical break with traditional literate and

hermeneutics. The change will be more precisely

reflected in literature due to reasons observable in

social domains, such as the pioneering role of the

intellectual as well as the relative opposition or neutral

attitude of a society at any given time versus inherited

ones. The major critical impacts are against the

narrative assumptions or orientation embedded in the

perspectives such as literary history, individuality

(subjectivism), genre preference for poetry, or

preference for realism in fiction. Carl Jung, Hermann

Lea, James Frazier, Pierre Abeles, Will Braun, et al., in

human studies, Durkheim, Hobbes, and others in social

studies propounded the idea that humans innately

cherish memory of the past or history. Conversely, the

literary theories propounded by Renaissance period

critics such as Sidney, Hudson, Corneil, and Longino

advanced 'Mimesis' over staff making. Biography, the

gateway to history, shares throughout its length the

race's longing for history. In the postmodern period,

Marx, Engels, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Beckham,

Foucault

all have formulated their theories keeping

in view the idea that even algorithms are nothing but

the unfolding of an unending process.

Deconstruction of Linear Time and Space

The narrative strategies of traditional as well as

modernist writers have been based on a tacit

acceptance of a naturally ordered world which is

homogeneous, sequential, closely fitted, and thus

readily accessible to conceptualization. Recent

fictional works, however, have displayed a ready,

indeed compulsive, interest in deconstructing the

common linguistic, psychological as well as

phenomenological ways of representing time and

space, systematically dismantling the a priori

categories of sequential time, uniform space, and

coherent ego which have been traditionally combined

to maintain any sense of intelligibility or coherence in

narratives. Resultantly, they present time and space as

inconsistent or multiple, and systematically disrupt the

normal or chronological sequence of one-to-all

directional reading practices.


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Just as the spatial strategies of traditional fiction make

room for telling stories linearly - in a manner

determined by the cause-and-effect like character of

repressed consciousness or accumulated data -

temporal strategies establish a distance which makes

room for spatial representation. Postmodern writers

consider narratives not as independent of time and

space but rather integrally related to the differential

play of their rencontre and transformation. Therefore,

newer narratives are compelled to reflect the idea of

time and space as constitutive systems whose meaning

is no longer comprehensible in an axiomatic deductive

form. It ceases to be a uniform or homogeneous

"container" of our phenomena or events, but, on the

contrary, becomes something which "separates" the

text and is reflected within the narrative text as a

disjointed series of "spaces". This fragmentation of

space is nothing but the reversal of the universal

allegorical meaning and certitude to be found in a

single sited global narrative.

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL FRAGMENTATION IN

POSTMODERN LITERATURE

In the postmodern novel, temporal and spatial

representations are often fragmented. Consequently,

postmodernist novels often do not construct a linear

narrative but are produced in a disorderly way. In this

way, time does not flow following the chronological

sequence as it has traditionally been conceived, so that

the two ideas become entwined, making it practically

impossible to distinguish one from the other.

Temporal organization, that is, the ability to order

events following a traditional procedure, becomes

impossible without leaving spatial organization,

because the temporal order is designed differently to

collide with the spatial one. Therefore, claims about

the length of time become doubtful; it is not entirely

clear which event precedes or follows another in

novels that cause significant disruption to spatial

order.

In this context, events are often contradicted by the

same narrative subjects because the main characters

and the people in the narrative often have amnesia.

They do not quite remember or completely forget

events that occur. Not only is it difficult to remember

events, but there are also situations where they simply

do not believe in the historical accuracy of the events

experienced, and this is a particular case because

people do not believe that the event actually happened

to them, or that the event portrayed was not "original"

and actually happened. It is also repeated in different

contexts by various people and is still claimed to the

character in a different way. Behind this claim is mostly

denied by the same person who says it.

This ability to challenge the linear structure of time is

also reflected in the works of postmodernist authors

operating in literature. In fact, postmodernist authors'


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books abandon time and narrative constraints. In this

context, according to Eilde, in the novels of the

theoretical movement, the approach to time is rather a

question of spatial question in the novel. The

spontaneity of the novel writers in time was born out

of the they trapped in an absolute moment.

Bellow and Rushdie created characters who, like

themselves, are trapped in a space-time-away place

when old class citizens are stuck. In this work, one of

the views that will be stressed at this stage: more than

representing space-time as empty, the authors make

stories with place-type moments, which are symbolic

of a certain space. They express any space-time as a

section to be focused on as their creative process. By

adding picaresque narratives and magical real

elements to their structure because they are involved

in post-vanguard movements, these artists continue to

lay the space of their play in their novels. This leads to

a disruption of the physical-logical space of the novels

and becomes the element of disorganization for day-

time existence. This disruption, they left behind from

determinism and showed us that things can be handled

with our own will whenever they need to be re-

regulated. In addition, with their polygenetic and

destizen-centered spaces, these authors have set

different spatio-temporal description models that will

provide the context and content requirements of the

sentences proposed by the works of art.

Use of Nonlinear Narrative Structures

3.1. Use of nonlinear narrative structures.

This subtopic focuses on how authors integrate

nonlinear narrative structures, which are employed

either to align more closely with how the mind actually

works or to open up more complex ways of depicting

the relationships between multiple narratives in the

temporal and spatial sense of the term. As a technique

deployed

in

either

case,

non-linearity

in

postmodernism epitomizes the ongoing fictions of

time and space. Inspired by Einsteinian physics in the

field of time and space, postmodern authors explore

these fictions through the use of techniques, including

the deliberate and extreme fragmentation of time and

space. This fragmentation allows for a shift from one

narrative to another, which we usually think of as a

shift from one time or space to another, to be simply

taken as a juxtaposition between one narrative and the

next.

In any case, it seems that, through the use of these

variously conceived nonlinear narrative structures,

postmodern

authors produce

a fragmentary,

thematically or intertextually determined, affective or

simply random, occasional or collective variety of time

and space. As we can observe, individual identities on

the one hand and master narratives of history or

progress on the other become optional or downright

irrelevant. Finally, mention can be made of the article

by Airy on Lee's poem and its adaptations in graphic

novels, which finds resonance with our discussion here


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precisely through its focus on the intermedial

transpositions of the temporal and graphic

components.

METAFICTION AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN

POSTMODERN LITERATURE

Postmodern literature abounds with self-referent

fiction and intertextual play. Linda Hutcheon thus

outlines a surrogate genre born out of this literary

trend, dubbing it "historiographic metafiction".

Historiographic metafictions may employ real persons,

real events, or real historical settings. Invariably, the

protagonist or an incidental character will be a

professional writer, typically a novelist. Hutcheon

writes, "its parody of such things as the traditional

facts of biography and history, the idea that narrative

is transparent, historical occurrence coherent, the self-

identical human subject knowable, and the work of

literature superior to the mundane, ultimately mirrors

the way in which fiction and historiography themselves

share strategies. Both are artefactual constructs,

narratives."

Intertextuality

is

a

theory

about

the

interconnectedness of literary texts, yet because it

deals with the presence of other texts within a literary

one, the concept relates closely to metaliterature. "As

to the second text," Roman Ingarden acknowledges,

"...it is found in a fabric that is itself a 'purposive'

work." In proposing his concept of "intraliterational

metafiction", Lawrence Lasher makes the logic of

intertextuality even more explicit, stating, "When the

larger text within which a smaller text appears is itself

literary, the action may further be perceived as

operating at an intraliterary level." Metafiction, as

Lasher defines it, is therefore "the employment of

possibility that the uchronic or fantastic elements of

the story which it structurally encloses might be an

integral part of the literary fabric sustaining it, rather

than some extra, non-literary layer needing to be

stripped away to get to the (possible) 'real'

'hypothetical' tale tucked inside its (actual) 'true'

counterpart." In other words, the existence of a

second layer does not guarantee reality; not all tales

within tales have a relationship between sign and

referent. The mark of metafiction in postmodern

literature is thus a never-ending, self-referential cycle.

This, in turn, has implications for how time and space

are constructed and perceived within literature of the

era.

Blurring the Boundaries between Fiction and Reality

Postmodernist literature traces itself by many

subversive techniques through which authors shift the

boundaries between fiction and reality. They use

historical figures as characters and adapt biographical

and documentary texts in a creative manner, thus

insidiously following the conventions of realism.

Instead of fact, fiction nestles in between every line of

their novels. The resultant effect plays directly into the


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postmodern treatment of time and space, and the

strange sense within it. As time goes on, reality and

fiction seem to be projected ever closer together.

Instead of being completely independent realities,

they seem to crash headlong into each other. This

causes time and space to shift, sometimes even

blending two of each together.

The boundary between fiction and reality has been an

important area of concern for many contemporary

authors. This idea, increasingly central to recent

literature, is used to challenge the hierarchical status of

fiction in relation to reality. From this skeptical point in

reality, some authors representing the postmodern

bent of the contemporary literary scenario began to

populate their narratives with these and other

temporal anomalies, writing experimental fiction that

defies encapsulation within traditionally sequential

forms in order to finally break open classical

conceptions of space.

POSTMODERNIST AUTHORS AND WORKS

In the field of postmodernist literature, many authors

are central due to their impact and significant work on

the subject of postmodernism and their repertoire.

These literary authors also offer different views on

time and space as portrayed in their works, such as the

view of time as history and eternally recurring in Tom

Robbins' Skinny Legs and All. Mentioned below are

some relevant authors and their works which align

with this view of denoting time:

1) Don DeLillo - White Noise (1985) 2) Tom Robbins -

Skinny Legs and All (1990) 3) Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus

Pocus (1990) 4) Maxine Hong Kingston - Tripmaster

Monkey: His Fake Book (1989) 5) Umberto Eco -

Foucault's Pendulum (1988) 6) Anthony Burgess - A

Clockwork Orange (1962) 7) Jay McInerney - Bright

Lights, Big City (1984)

These authors are acclaimed for their work, and fewer

of these have widely influenced the subject of

postmodernist literature. However, a few of the

authors are known for a more realistic, subjective,

symbolic approach to their representation of time and

space. Their works express these character trends that

help readers muse on how much of people and place

make it possible in writing and in life and vice versa.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is often associated with

postmodern literature (although he does not fit the

movement completely), and his works present a

ciphered nature of time and space. One of his best-

known short stories is "The Garden of Forking Paths,"

in which the narrative takes on the complexity of an

actual labyrinth. Characters have to go back and forth

in order to finally "earn" a linear experience of the

story's time, while the reader has an instant

understanding of the several twisted, intertwined


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times of the narrative at once. It is through these

temporal distortions that the notion of how

postmodernists dealing with science fiction see time

and space can be explored, and "increased our faith in

the narrational possibilities of fiction."

"The Garden of Forking Paths" takes place during

World War I, while the narrator reflects on what it

means to be Chinese and a Secret Service agent. His

friend Dr. Yu Tsun helps him to his appointment to a

renowned sinologist of the name Stephan Albert, who

is in the Professor of Sinology at the University of

Oxford, while an officer calls at the door and shoots Dr.

Yu Tsun in the lumber region, before he himself gets

shot. As the story goes on, it is revealed by the doctor

in a letter to the chief German officer, Richard Madden,

that Stephan Albert has been murdered, whereas the

murderer, Hightower, drunk and deranged, has been

sentenced already and sentenced to be hanged. The

main framework of the narrative is the doctor's letter.

It has an "intricate mid-narrative structure" and

exhibits labyrinthine abstractions on time and space of

extraordinary sort, shaped "as meta-metaphysical

masterpieces or maps of paradox." The reality is

constructed in such a way that all plausible alternatives

are encountered over and over again by the artifacts

and by history. The concept presents the drama of alt-

repetition rather than alt-identification. The "manifold

large" (157), or as we read it

for it is metaphysical in

nature

"aleph" is named Tlön. One of the main

characters Dr. Stephan Albert, whom we have never

met so far, is somehow described as the most eminent

amongst an indefinite line of intellectuals who have

also themselves adhered in some form to the theory of

the mutability of matter and ideas. He has become a

follower

or he is

of the memory man, whose

pursuit is chosen out of all.

Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Postmodernist views of time and space in literature are

displayed through both an innovative representation

of time and space and a self-conscious reflexivity on

the part of the author and characters. Italo Calvino is a

master of these priorities in writing, especially as

demonstrated in his novel If on a Winter's Night a

Traveler. In this book, Calvino challenges traditional

epistemology and portrays a researcher's view of the

oppositions to connection in both time and space in

literature and theory.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler reflects postmodern

views of time in literature by illustrating how literary

texts confront disconnection in a world that embraces

the notion that connection was lost long ago. A

deconstructivist perspective on time is presented that

negates the traditional separation and opposition

between time and its elements, much like the

paradoxes presented in deconstructivist architecture.

Additionally, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler offers a

representation of postmodern geography and visuality


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in a literature of disconnection and détournement.

Time is of the essence to the postmodern subject, and

the dominance of speed and the urban experience for

the characters in Calvino's book confirm this. The

experience of waiting, which still carries a place for

theorizing plurality in Deleuze and Guattari's A

Thousand Plateaus, is subsumed in the goal of arrival in

the perfect metropolis. By opposing expectation to

arrival in the literature of a de-arrived world and

expecting only detour while trapped in a world of

fatalities, Calvino provides yet another example of the

postmodernist focus on displacement in the

constructed binarism between expectation and arrival.

CONCLUSION

The aim of this contribution was to investigate

postmodernist views on time and space and their

realization in literature and film. In successful

cooperation, valuable insights have been gained. The

definition of time as a broad concept has the power to

eliminate established categories of historical eras in

Western intellectual history and propose a new,

transforming twist of scientific and social activities, as

demonstrated with quantum physics and theories of

relativity. Ideas of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and

infinity might resonate with ideas from language

philosophy and contemporary interpretations posited

in art expressions. Within literary texts, different uses

of time come to the fore. Time tends to be

deconstructed or compressed at the expense of logical

lengths or symbolizes cyclical repetition. It serves as a

warp and a weft from where gothic and science fiction

narratives are woven; it is played with in postcolonial

texts. Similar uses are found in space in literature,

which is often seen as a conceptual category that goes

beyond the material and invokes not just navigation

through physical environments but transcends into

connecting emotional domains or psychology,

becoming both a location and a trope.

Postmodern theory does not just add to the critical

theoretical toolbox by suggesting literary or cinematic

parameters of creativity but revolutionizes practices of

representations and modes of theorizing itself. It turns

the study of conceptions of time and space into a

utopian realm. Cecelia C. Cavanaugh's assertion that

"films involving time share what the postmodern

novelists share: a wish to subvert time, time's tyranny

and repressive linearity, linear time's profit marking

and its traumas" is potent. In fact, readings of play with

time and space in literature and film indeed confirm

that interpretations of art expressions reconfigure

their meanings and performative practices. A

postmodernist approach adds an additional category

of interpretation to traditional realism, modernist

transcendentalism,

and

performative

schema,

questioning and bequeathing an array of modes of

reception and production. In this contribution, just a

few pathways in time and space used by artists have

been suggested. Authors and scholars are now invited


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American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research
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Alasdair Macintyre. 2007. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. 3rd ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Austen, Jane. 1814. Mansfield Park. British Women's Novels 1810–1829: The Companion Volume to The Corvey Library Database. 611–903.

Borges, Jorge Luis. 1939. El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Sur. Revista Mensual (1941): 1–4.

Delabastita, Dirk. 1997. There's Corpus and (hope) there's Ideology: Evidence from English spelling. Language and Computers 20. 41–68.

Feltham, Daniel. 1912. Resolves. Ancora Press: Leeds.

Hoare, Quintin. 1994. A Lifetime from Spring. In The Public and Private Worlds of E. M. Forster, 128–43. London: The British Museum of the Moving Image.

Hull, Jac and Gillo Pontecorvo. 2000. The Battle of Algiers. YouTube: Magnolia Pictures.

Kearns, L. Keith. 2007. Looking at Cities. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kirby, David A. 1997. Stars of David: The Image of the Star of David in Modern Israeli Art and Its Roots in Jewish Art Throughout the Ages. Lanham, Md.: UP of America.

Klein, Melanie. 1992. Envy and Gratitude: And Other Works. 1946–1963. Vol. 3. The Writings of Melanie Klein. London, New York: The Free Association.

Kowalski, Ari. 2020. "Postmodern" Ontologies. Ground-Works: Environmental Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate.