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Title:[Reading Zoë Wicomb's cosmopolitan, domestic and recursive settings]
Editors:Samuelson, MegISNI
Driver, DorothyISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (ISSN 2159-9130)
Volume:23
Issue:2
Pages:207
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:novels
literary criticism
About person:Zoë Wicomb (1948-)ISNI
Abstract:This theme number of 'Current Writing' focuses on the work of the novelist, short-story writer and literary critic, Zoë Wicomb (South Africa). Contents: Reading Zoë Wicomb's cosmopolitan, domestic and recursive settings (Meg Samuelson) - Zoë Wicomb and the Cape cosmopolitan (Dorothy Driver) - Scaling the Gifberge: cosmopolitanism, cartography and space in Zoë Wicomb's 'You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town' (Cóilín Parsons) - Cape impudence (Mark Sanders) - 'Dulcie longs for the comfort of the quotidian': the place of everyday life in Zoë Wicomb's 'David's Story' (David Álvarez) - A 'place in which to cry': the place for race and a home for shame in Zoë Wicomb's 'Playing in the Light' (Minesh Dass) - The place of nostalgia in Zoë Wicomb's 'Playing in the Light' (Dirk Klopper) - Shadow stories and shadow selves: techniques of selfhood in Zoë Wicomb's 'Playing in the Light' and the autobiographical writing of Agnes Lottering and Rayda Jacobs (M.J. Daymond). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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