When Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is read through a Foucauldian lens, the impacts of discursive power become evident. Since Carroll was writing before Foucault, it cannot be said he was writing to uncover discourses; however, it can be claimed that in challenging people’s taken for granted assumptions, that is exactly what he did. Alice’s experiences are analogues of Foucault’s ideas of discourse and power made manifest in narrative form. Many examples can be drawn from the text but the focus here is on the discursive power of time and Carroll’s manipulations of it throught his narratives. As temporal beings, we exist in the space between the past and…