.... Recent detective novels like Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games require us to reassess the temporalities of expectation, deferral, and disappointment that have traditionally shaped the genre. Detective fiction, these texts suggest, is all about making us wait...

...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

..., unremarkable relationships—transforming dullness into novelistic event. Two novels demonstrate Green's extraordinary effects achieved through and with the banal, the boring, the vague, and the everyday: Party Going (1939) and Nothing (1951). In Party Going , a group of people stranded at a train station wait...

... : Florida State UP , 1986 . 83 – 94 . Echeruo W. J. C. “James Wait and The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus.’” English Studies in Africa 8 ( 1965 ): 166 – 80 . Foulke R. D. “Creed and Conduct in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus.’” Conradiana 12 ( 1980 ): 105 – 28 . Fraser...

... they have been estranged—waiting for him at home alone in their house at Portland Place rather than with her father at his house in Eaton Square. She calculated this act to gain Amerigo's attention—as a sign for him that she misses him and recognizes that something is amiss between them—and the narrative...

... the perspicacious vision typical of the narrating colonist. Take the relationship of James Wait of Conrad's The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Quentin Compson of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury . Napolin wonders, “Does not Quentin's suicide restage the appearance and disappearance of Wait? Wait is buried at sea...

... space was occupied by things waiting to be used and thus ‘not wasted’” (165). If Song's comment demonstrates the spatial tension between people and things, it also taps into the temporal dimension of storage as a state of “waiting”—waiting for “some future use” that, for a hoarder, will likely never...

... through a static now that waits for the future to reach it. For Edmund Hus- serl the passage of time is like listening to a melody, where the listener’s now is composed of traces of the melody’s past as well as protentions into or anticipations of its future. Between the recital and the psalm...

..., to lessen its violence. Within this philosophical frame, Marais’s read- CLARKSON | COETZEE’S ETHICS, POLITICS, AND WRITING 149 ings are illuminating, perhaps most especially in relation to Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Foe, and The Master...

... the disinterested joy of reading literature and a conviction that authors left for us some important riddles that are waiting to be authoritatively solved. The problem is that, as in the case of any incestuous community, no matter how creative (or procreative), only a small pool of genes is being exchanged...

... infrastructure (including station toilets, waiting areas and the Underground) came a nerv relationship to temporality, a "hurrying and waiting" (2), that in turn offered new op- portunities for erotic proximities among men. Cook admirably eschews the notion that one can locate or identify a singular "gay...

... paradoxically, in a fixation upon unemployment. Unemployment-especially as we find it in this text, with its images of obsolescence, issueless effort, and frantic waiting-is not simply the absence of work; it certainly has nothing at all to do with leisure. Rather, it is a term that lies...

... character with the protagonists of Waiting for Godot (1953) and their several names, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo). Atwood's name games open the novel with a split subjectivity to evoke Snowman/Jimmy's initial brokenness of self as well as the before/after temporality that structures the novel...

..., the disparate pair of novellas titled Dusklands (1974) and the numbered paragraphs of In the Heart of the Country (1977), he shifted to a more accessible style, and achieved international recognition, with Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). There followed a series of novels each of which marked a new...

... had been unwell but hadn't realized how seriously ill she was. Soon after exchanging greetings, my grandfather said: “enda uone mama yako, labda alikuwa anakungoja” (go and see your mother [aunt], maybe she was waiting for you). 1 I went to her room. She had always been skinny. Now she was a little...

...” activity of mind that had the inherent tendency to resist various forms of indoctrination, including the scholastic and the religious. Understood in Winter’s terms, then—“as a theory about the mental processes of subject formation” (42)—associationism was, by the late 1830s, a theory waiting...

... Jameson’s work as to be in reaction against it. This special edition of Novel: A Forum on Fiction presents a number of recent submissions to and commissions for the journal that foreground these issues. In “The Long Wait: Timely Secrets of the Contemporary Detective Novel,” Theodore Martin...

...: New Writing, Photographs and Art. Spec. issue of TriQuarterly 69 ( 1987 ): 454 –64. Coetzee , J.M. Waiting for the Barbarians . London: Secker & Warburg, 1980 . Coetzee , J.M. with Garber, Marjorie, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts. The Lives of Animals...

..., Kunyarara Hakusi Kutaura? ( 1983 ), suggests a literal emphasis on opposition if it is translated as To Be Silent Is Not to Speak? —a dimension that gets lost in the more idiomatic translation of Silence Is Golden . The 1975 English-language Mungoshi classic Waiting for the Rain , with its revealing...

... what Tristram warns his read- ers not to do. In volume 1, he breaks off to insist that one of his female readers go back and reread the previous chapter. As he waits for her to return, he explains that he is making an example of her in order “to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept...