Zoë Wicomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 98876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë Wicomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë |
| FAMILY NAME | Wicomb |
| SIGNATURE | WICOMB Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
Playing in the Light: A Novel
From the acclaimed South African novelist, a lyrical tale of self-discovery in post-apartheid cape town. Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Playing in the Light revolves around Marion, a woman of Afrikaner background, who hates traveling but nonetheless runs a travel agency, and her complex relationship with Brenda, the first black woman she has ever employed. In writing as finely detailed and attuned to psychological nuance as Anita …
Extract from work in progress
This article is an extract from a work in progress
Washing Dirty Linen in Public
Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing
This article addresses the problems of reading Slow Man (Coetzee 2005) through tracking its engagement with various levels of the real as well as its representation of the complex relationship between author, narrator and character. The real difficulty that besets the writer trying to produce a story from an inchoate idea is explored through the concept of substitution, one of the hermeneutic keys that structure the novel. Thus I examine the cont…
In Search of Tommie
Short story set in South Africa
Setting, Intertextuality and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial Author1
This is not an abstract: this essay responds to the phenomenon of writers being invited "to speak as a writer" at conferences on postcoloniality. My attempt to discuss the setting of my fiction via "the death of the author", to revisit the distinction between writer and narrator, in turn discussed in relation to ... does not lend itself to an abstract. Rather, I must rely on readers' patience and beg their goodwill to follow my text, which cannot…
Translations in the yard of Africa
In his account of the style in which Pauline Smith represents Afrikaners, her “faux‐naïef” translation or transfer from Afrikaans to English, J.M. Coetzee identifies the grammatical error of aspect as evidence that there is no actual Afrikaans original behind the archaic‐sounding, ethnicised English: “no‐one speaking his own language makes errors of aspect: the time‐system of the verb is too fundamental to language, and therefore to conceptualisa…
Shame and identity: The case of the coloured in South Africa
Also: brown contains black – (?) – How would a person behave for us to say of him that he knows a pure, primary brown? We must always bear in mind the question: How do people learn the meaning of colour names? wittgenstein , Remarks on Colour In the 1980s South Africans discovered the Khoi/coloured woman Saartje Baartman, once known as the Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in London and Paris from 1810 to her death in 1815. In nineteenth century…
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness
Reading, Writing, and Visual Production in the New South Africa
Nation, race and ethnicity: Beyond the legacy of victims
To hear the variety of discourses
(1990). To hear the variety of discourses. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-44
Setting, Intertextuality and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial Author1
This is not an abstract: this essay responds to the phenomenon of writers being invited "to speak as a writer" at conferences on postcoloniality. My attempt to discuss the setting of my fiction via "the death of the author", to revisit the distinction between writer and narrator, in turn discussed in relation to ... does not lend itself to an abstract. Rather, I must rely on readers' patience and beg their goodwill to follow my text, which cannot…
Washing Dirty Linen in Public
In Search of Tommie
Short story set in South Africa
Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness
Reading, Writing, and Visual Production in the New South Africa
To hear the variety of discourses
(1990). To hear the variety of discourses. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-44
Nation, race and ethnicity: Beyond the legacy of victims
Reading, Writing, and Visual Production in the New South Africa
Shame and identity: The case of the coloured in South Africa
Also: brown contains black – (?) – How would a person behave for us to say of him that he knows a pure, primary brown? We must always bear in mind the question: How do people learn the meaning of colour names? wittgenstein , Remarks on Colour In the 1980s South Africans discovered the Khoi/coloured woman Saartje Baartman, once known as the Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in London and Paris from 1810 to her death in 1815. In nineteenth century…
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness
Translations in the yard of Africa
In his account of the style in which Pauline Smith represents Afrikaners, her “faux‐naïef” translation or transfer from Afrikaans to English, J.M. Coetzee identifies the grammatical error of aspect as evidence that there is no actual Afrikaans original behind the archaic‐sounding, ethnicised English: “no‐one speaking his own language makes errors of aspect: the time‐system of the verb is too fundamental to language, and therefore to conceptualisa…
Setting, Intertextuality and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial Author1
This is not an abstract: this essay responds to the phenomenon of writers being invited "to speak as a writer" at conferences on postcoloniality. My attempt to discuss the setting of my fiction via "the death of the author", to revisit the distinction between writer and narrator, in turn discussed in relation to ... does not lend itself to an abstract. Rather, I must rely on readers' patience and beg their goodwill to follow my text, which cannot…
Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing
This article addresses the problems of reading Slow Man (Coetzee 2005) through tracking its engagement with various levels of the real as well as its representation of the complex relationship between author, narrator and character. The real difficulty that besets the writer trying to produce a story from an inchoate idea is explored through the concept of substitution, one of the hermeneutic keys that structure the novel. Thus I examine the cont…
In Search of Tommie
Short story set in South Africa
Washing Dirty Linen in Public
Playing in the Light: A Novel
From the acclaimed South African novelist, a lyrical tale of self-discovery in post-apartheid cape town. Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Playing in the Light revolves around Marion, a woman of Afrikaner background, who hates traveling but nonetheless runs a travel agency, and her complex relationship with Brenda, the first black woman she has ever employed. In writing as finely detailed and attuned to psychological nuance as Anita …
Extract from work in progress
This article is an extract from a work in progress
Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
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