Timescapes of Waiting

Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40695-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

Timescapes 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Singer, Christoph

Wirth, Robert

Berwald, Olaf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Singer is assistant professor in the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. He published on representations of shorelines as liminal spaces, conceptions of Middlebrow and Early Modern Literature and Culture. Currently he is working on a project entitled A History of Solitude: (Post-)Modernist Narratives of Waiting and Delay.

Robert Wirth is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English language and British cultural studies. His primary research interests lie in the field of Scottish literature, politics and culture, with a main focus on the utilisation of history and nostalgia in contemporary political campaigning. Together with Cornelia Wächter he is co-editor of Complicity and the Politics of Representation (2019).

Olaf Berwald
Olaf Berwald is Professor of German Studies and Department Chair of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, US. His has published on Melanchthon, Peter Weiss, Max Frisch, modernist aesthetics and religion, and on creative collaborations between Latin American and German writers.