Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Waiting at the Heart of Colonial Time Regimes
- 2 Projects and Promissory Notes: The Waiting Rooms of V. S. Naipaul and Nadine Gordimer
- 3 Marooned Time: Disruptive Waiting and Idleness
- 4 Gendered Timescapes of Waiting: Patience and Urgency in Novels of Disillusionment
- 5 ‘Strategic Waiting’ and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Conflict
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Waiting at the Heart of Colonial Time Regimes
- 2 Projects and Promissory Notes: The Waiting Rooms of V. S. Naipaul and Nadine Gordimer
- 3 Marooned Time: Disruptive Waiting and Idleness
- 4 Gendered Timescapes of Waiting: Patience and Urgency in Novels of Disillusionment
- 5 ‘Strategic Waiting’ and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Conflict
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial TimeWaiting for Now, pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022