Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now - Couverture souple

Lagji, Amanda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474490212 ISBN 13 : 9781474490214

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time, as well as in postcolonial framings of time, history and agency. Drawing from critical time and postcolonial studies alike, this book argues that the temporality of waiting is an essential concept to theorise the relationship between time and power in postcolonial fiction across the long twentieth century - one that illuminates the contradictory temporalities that underlie narratives of progress, modernization and development. The book contributes to the resurgence of interest in time within literary studies by demonstrating that waiting is also integral to postcolonial temporalities, from anticolonial nationalist movements for independence to forms of reconciliation after conflict. In addition to innovative readings of both classic and contemporary postcolonial novels, this study challenges the dominant narrative of the twentieth century as a time of acceleration and movement by arguing for the centrality of waiting to time-consciousness in the postcolonial world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amanda Lagji is Assistant Professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, critical time studies and terrorism and literature. She publishes widely on postcolonial literatures, including chapters in Transnational Africana Women's Fictions (2021), Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century (2021), The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (2021), and Timescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral(2019). Recent articles have been published in Studies in the Novel (2020), Mobilities (2019), Safundi (2018), South Asian Review (2018), and African Literature Today (2016). Her book manuscript won the Northeast Modern Language Association's 2020 Book Award for the Best Unpublished Book Manuscript.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474490212
• ISBN 13: 9781474490214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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