Multiple belongings’ in Zoë Wicomb’s ‘My Name Is HannaH’ (2005)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Fossati (0000-0003-3664-1961, University of Milan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-197 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict_00081_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4391828508 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the short story/essay ‘My Name is HannaH’ (2005) by South African-born writer Zoë Wicomb, focusing on its generic hybridity, its translocal quality and its deeply intertextual structure. Retracing the life and works of the South African poet Arthur Nortje through the artifice of fiction, Wicomb exposes the discursive and relational nature of space and identity. By analysing the story’s extremely heterogeneous intertexts and its playful generic inbetweenness, I seek to show how Wicomb refuses any form of categorization or fixed notion, exposing, rather, the seams and fissures of the textuality of reality. Ultimately, I argue that the thematic and formal features of the selected narrative can foreground the relationship between world literature and the short story as a liminal, cosmopolitan and mutable genre, particularly appropriate for the representation of the interconnectedness of our society
Art · Genealogy · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · History · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |