Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now

ISBN-13: 9781474490207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

LAGJI AMANDA

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Acknowledgements
List of tables
Introduction

Chapter 1. WAITING AT THE HEART OF COLONIAL TIMES REGIMES

Waiting in Conrad’s Congo
Ambiguities of ‘Colonial’ Time
Waiting for the Twilight of Empire
Journeying to the Heart of Empire

CHAPTER 2. PROJECTS AND PROMISSORY NOTES: THE WAITING ROOMS OF V.S. NAIPAUL AND NADINE GORDIMER

Conrad’s Heir: Naipaul’s African Fiction
‘I will wait for the rest of my life’: Indian-Africans Abroad
Temporal Dimensions of Waiting during the Interregnum in South Africa
Broken Watches: Dismantling the Waiting Rooms of History

CHAPTER 3. MAROONED TIME: DISRUPTIVE WAITING AND IDLENESS

Timelessly Recurrent: Reading the Revolutionary Maroon
Countertemporalities: History, Circularity, and Flight
Idle Time: Laboring Against the State
Lines of Flight: States of Freedom in Marronage

CHAPTER 4. GENDERED TIMESCAPES OF WAITING: PATIENCE AND URGENCY IN NOVELS OF DISILLUSIONMENT

Engendering Timescapes: Patience and Urgency
Waiting Impatiently: Timescapes of Accra
‘Now’ is Here: Fierce Urgency
Gendered Temporalities of Waiting

CHAPTER 5. ‘STRATEGIC WAITING’ AND RECONCILIATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT
‘Breaking the cycle’: History, Memory, and New Beginnings
Fictional Responses, Counterpoints, and Supplements to TRCs
‘Strategic Waiting’ and the Temporalities of Reconciliation
Silence as Receptive Waiting

Conclusion
Bibliography