This collective volume explores the connections between time and difference in a transcultural
perspective. The dehistoricization and naturalization of diversity in contemporary discourse
conceal the roles of Subjectivity memory and time in the social construction of difference.
The experience and perception of time is at once psychological linguistic political
philosophical and cultural. It is also technologically mediated. Whether linear circular
interrupted cyclical synchronic diachronic or (non-)simultaneous time stands in
problematic relation to space and not just metaphorically. Overlapping memories hidden
histories processes of in- and exclusion future aspirations and projections arise from and
give rise to diversity. Both memories and metanarratives are cultural practices that organize
experience and transform it into general knowledge. Following Lyotard and poststructuralist
theorists we can question these hegemonies to unveil petits récits (1979) and to reflect on the
diversity of human experience such as indigenous immigrant and other marginalized
perspectives in Canada and Québec as well as in Europe.
