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