- henriette.rordal@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582332
- Visitor address
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Sydnesplassen 7
5007 Bergen - Room: 224
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Research groups
Research
My dissertation has the working title: "A Chronotope of Presentism: Time in the Aesthetic Imaginary of America's White Working Class."
The project argues that the 1980s work of American authors Raymond Carver and Bobbie Ann Mason represents the emergence of an entirely new chronotope - what we might call a «chronotope of presentism.» A motif that mimics the constricted and ephemeral nature of presentism (a conception of time that privileges only the present), it imposes rigid limits onto working-class storyworlds – resembling something akin to a pressure chamber. Within its time-space, the mere possibility of a future seems impossible, and the chronotope thus deprives the necessary means to formulate the aesthetics of solidarity.
Publications
Academic article
- Henriette Rørdal (2026). On A Perpetual State Of Becoming: Transnationality and Precarity against the American Dream in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. (external link)
- Henriette Rørdal (2025). Talking Around Things or Talking Through Them? Minimalist Explorations of a Working-Class life in Helle Helle’s Rødby-Puttgarden. (external link)