Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema.

Chapter 1. Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963) From Novel to Screenplay, Bernard Montoneri, Independent Researcher, Taiwan; Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar.- Chapter 2. Travelling through Time and Space in the Works of Russian Speaking Science Fiction Writers, Iryna B. Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine.- Chapter 3. El anacronópete (1884, 1887), the First Journey in a Time Machine in Hispanic literature, Fernando Darío González Grueso, Tamkang University, Taipei Rachid Lamarti, Tamkang University, Taipei.- Chapter 4. The Ice People (1968), a story of humankind’s auto-destruction, Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar.- Chapter 5. ‘I’m just a traveller’: Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Histories of Time and Space, Alyson Miller and Eleanore Gardner, Deakin University, Australia.- Chapter 6. Time Travel in M. Bugakov's Master and Margarita, Anna Toom, Touro College & University System, New York, USA.- Chapter 7. Chronotopes, Afrotropes, and Restorative Aesthetics in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.- Chapter 8. Femi Osofisan’s One Legend, Many Seasons, Oyewumi Olatoye, Agunbiade & Enongene Mirabeau, Sone, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.- Chapter 9. Time Travel in Japan and The Girl who Leapt through Time, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan.- Chapter 10. The Concept of Time Travel in Vedic Literature- A Perspective, Beena Giridharan, Curtin University, Malaysia.

Bernard Montoneri was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan until January 2020. He is now an independent researcher. He has around 60 publications and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2017. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship since 2019.