... the chronopolitics that underpin the troubled encounter between Tess and Angel to argue that their divergent temporal orders both enable and preclude an alliance between the two worlds they stem from. Ultimately, the article investigates the dynamic between modernity and peasanthood to argue for their metonymic...

... concept of chronopolitics —his term for anthropology's depiction of the supposedly static, unchanging time of “primitive” society against which the dynamic, forward-moving time of the West can be measured. Poe's portrayal of Tsalal, the southern island Pym discovers, fits seamlessly within this tradition...