Timescapes of waiting [e-book] : spaces of stasis, delay and deferral / Christoph Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Christoph, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Christoph, Singer, editor.

Wirth, Robert, editor.

Olaf, Berwald, editor.

Series:

Spatial Practices; volume31.

Spatial Practices; volume31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waiting (Philosophy).

Time pressure--Philosophy.

Time pressure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald

Waiting in the Antechamber / Helmut Puff

Waiting for Railways (1830–1914) / Robin Kellermann

Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay / Richard Hardack

Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement / Cornelia Wächter

The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit” / Christoph Singer

“The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King / Kerstin Howaldt

Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting / Amanda Lagji

Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss / Olaf Berwald

Scotland: A Nation-State in Waiting / Robert Wirth

How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls / Margaret Olin

When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building” / Elise Brault-Dreux

Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” / Katrin Röder

Back Matter

Index.

ISBN:

90-04-40712-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004407121 DOI