(Note: at the time I’m writing this, I’m only partway through the reading, at about page 180. I’m interested to see if this interpretation changes by the end of the reading.)<\/p>\n
Sorry I’ve been posting so much about queer time (I know, sooo February) but I’m still fascinated by the idea. For most of the end of Chapter\/Book II, starting around page 139 and ending on 188, the narrative is split into three,\u00a0between Otho’s delivery, Mala on the same day in her yard, and a story of Pohpoh sneaking into someone’s house in the dead of night. However, the bug markers which often show a change in either narrative or time frame only appeared when switching to or from an Otho section, but not going between Mala and Pohpoh, despite these obviously being from separate times periods, as they are the same person and could not normally exist within the same section. As Otho comes closer into the yard,\u00a0we realize that Mala is replaying the Pohpoh scenes in her head, allowing them to coexist in the same story. We also learn that Mala is trying desperately to protect Pohpoh, and wishes that she had been her mother, her older sister, or even just a friend. As she drifts between her visions and reality when Otho approaches and later when the police search her yard, her story and Pohpoh’s become even more intermingled, with the memory of Pohpoh finding refuge in Mala’s garden, which of course could not be a true memory.<\/p>\n
One would think that someone who has gone through the trauma that Mala has would not wish to sit and intently remember her childhood. However, Mala is able to reimagine her past in a way that incorporates her older self, who is able to protect and care for Pohpoh\u00a0when no one else would or could. In her subconscious, she is able to double herself to not only protect herself in her past, but also to keep her company as she spends her days alone and haunted in her garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Note: at the time I’m writing this, I’m only partway through the reading, at about page 180. I’m interested to see if this interpretation changes by the end of the reading.) Sorry I’ve been posting so much about queer time (I know, sooo February) but I’m still fascinated by the idea. For most of the … Continue reading Mala, Poh Poh, and Queer Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}