Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now

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.

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 Her book manuscript won the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 2020 Book Award for the Best Unpublished Book Manuscript.