Homo-crono-normatividad

This paper analyzes the novel Los Llanos by Argentine writer Federico Falco through the concept of queer temporality, understood not only as a rupture from modern, postcolonial, and capitalist time, but more importantly as an interruption of chrononormativity (Freeman, 2010) and homonormativity (Duggan, 2003). Temporality is thus approached from a queer or sex-dissident perspective in at least two ways. First, the novel portrays the narrator’s stay in the countryside as a withdrawal from the accelerated temporality of urban life. Second, it explores the attempt to navigate a breakup and the end of a relationship once projected into the future through the shared project of building a home. In this context, both the act of writing the novel and cultivating a vegetable garden allow for a reflection on normative frameworks that exceed heterosexuality, and that may be understood as mechanisms of meaning-making that enact a form of violence and domestication upon the non-sense of desire and pleasure.