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Book SynopsisTimescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies – in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states. Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald 1 Waiting in the Antechamber Helmut Puff 2 Waiting for Railways (1830–1914) Robin Kellermann 3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay Richard Hardack 4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement Cornelia Wächter 5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit” Christoph Singer 6 “The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King Kerstin Howaldt 7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting Amanda Lagji 8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss Olaf Berwald 9 Scotland: a Nation-State in Waiting Robert Wirth 10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls Margaret Olin 11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building” Elise Brault-Dreux 12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” Katrin Röder Index
