LYNCH, LEAH. “Intemperate Time: Queer(Ing) Temporality and Narrative in Nightwood.” Women’s Studies Journal, vol. 33, no. 1/2, Dec. 2019, pp. 84–102. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=141705873&site=eds-live&scope=site.In this article, Leah Lynch discusses Djuna Barnes' queer manipulation of narrative temporalities in her 1936 novel Nightwood. Reading this modernist novel through queer and psychoanalytic lenses, Lynch suggests that it displays the reciprocal, albeit uneven, construction of normative modes of being, and normative, novelistic conceptions of narrative. The novel offers not so much a model of how one might live time, affiliation, and language differently, but rather an unsettling of those norms that have, through gradual growth, come to figure as 'natural'. Using syntactical and narrative contortion, Barnes creates relationalities and subjectivities for her characters that are not consonant with linear time, but rather align with those spatiotemporalities (existences within both space and time) in which lives can be lived differently, or queerly. As queer narrative, Nightwood is therefore less about a return, retrieval, or other essentialist methodology, than it is with providing a stage for those particularities that can be elided by 'straight' images and understandings of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]