ABSTRACT
Queerness and cosmopolitanism share an oppositional stance against the linear weaving of modern temporality and its exclusionary nature that defines non-westerners as anachronistic and queer as against the heteronormative political program of repro-futurity. It is therefore impossible for the progressive and coherent timeliness of history to do justice to the coevality of multiple culture-, race- and gender-specific temporalities. Both Orlando and Hallucinations, through anachronism, discontinuity and other forms of temporal disruption, denounce colonial and gender marginalization, foster resistance to progress and endorse unexpected encounters at the intersection of sex, gender and race. Unsettling identitarian certainties and shaping an embrace of the other, no matter how deficient, faltering or ephemeral that may be, both Orlando and Servando exemplify queer cosmopolitanism. After explaining how historical time marginalizes the foreigner Servando and the queer Orlando and by the same token intertwines foreignness and alternative sexualities, the essay analyzes the defiant potential of alternative temporalities.
