Analepsis (plural analepses) or flashback is a form of anachrony by which some of the events of a story are related at a point in the narrative after later story-events; an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point.
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The Time Traveller's Wife' is full of analepses!
Now there's a word I should try to rememember as I seem to be reading a lot of such books lately. (Not with characters doing the time-travelling. But the reader has to!)
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