{"product_id":"postcolonial-fiction-and-colonial-time-waiting-for-now-hardcover","title":"Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Lagji\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostcolonial 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\u003cbr\u003ecentury as a time of acceleration and movement by arguing for the centrality of waiting to time-consciousness in the postcolonial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst book-length study to examine colonial and postcolonial temporalities through the analytic of waiting Drawing from critical time and postcolonial studies, this book argues that 'waiting' is an essential concept in theorising the relationship between time and power in postcolonial fiction across the long twentieth century - one that illuminates the contradictory temporalities that underlie narratives of colonial progress, modernisation and development. This study contributes to the resurgence of interest in time within literary studies by contending that waiting is integral to postcolonial temporalities, from anticolonial nationalist movements to forms of reconciliation after conflict. In addition to innovative readings of both classic and contemporary postcolonial novels, ranging from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Ishmael Beah's Radiance of Tomorrow, Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time challenges characterisations of the twentieth century as a time of acceleration by arguing for the centrality of waiting to time-consciousness in the postcolonial world. 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda 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 \u003ci\u003eTransnational Africana Women's Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eWomen Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and \u003ci\u003eTimescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral\u003c\/i\u003e(2019). Recent articles have been published in \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eMobilities\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eSafundi\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian Review\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eAfrican Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). Her book manuscript won the Northeast Modern Language Association's 2020 Book Award for the Best Unpublished Book Manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53036985286963,"sku":"9781474490207","price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WTJtLys1U2hYQVdYM28rZUhwdFNFdz09.webp?v=1770699130","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/postcolonial-fiction-and-colonial-time-waiting-for-now-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}