TY - JOUR AU - Chalupský, Petr PY - 2022/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia JF - American & British Studies Annual JA - ABSA VL - 15 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.46585/absa.2022.15.2429 UR - https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2429 SP - 49-63 AB - <p><em>Arcadia</em> (1992), Jim Crace’s most distinctively urban novel, bears the idiosyncratic features of its author’s writing: it is a deceptively simple story of vague geographical and historical setting conceived as a parable of the current world concerns, it portrays a community in a transitional moment of its existence, and it places special emphasis on spatial representations of its fictitious environment which assume metaphorical properties that convey the story’s rich ideas. Moreover, as a writer focusing on moral issues with a leftist political outlook, Crace has been consistent in his criticism of the neoliberal market economy and its negative impacts on communal values, a view which is also voiced in the novel. This paper makes use of the theoretical premises of Transmodernism as well as analytical tools of phenomenologically focused geocriticism to demonstrate that <em>Arcadia</em> can be subsumed within so-called transmodern fiction. This critique of globalized capitalism is carried out through sites Eric Prieto terms as the entre-deux, the in-between. Accordingly, the paper attempts to demonstrate how the novel’s liminal and heterogeneous places display non-linear and complexly interrelated temporalities which are indicative of their role within the city’s progress.</p> ER -