Playing in the Light
A Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19919641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoë Wicomb (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Playing in the Light (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The New Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781595587411 |
| OpenAlex | W1726786439 |
| Open Library | OL35898973M |
| ISBN | 9781595587411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
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 Brookner's, Wicomb depicts the life of a complicated, single woman in a changing and complicated place. Caught up in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission lead to the discovery of a skeleton in the family cupboard. While her aging father is unable and unwilling to supply the truth, Marion's young employee becomes implicated in the piecing together of Marion's past, leading to a defining transformation and widening of Marion's world. In this impeccably wrought new work, the acclaimed author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town provides wisdom and insight about the new South Africa and about people everywhere
Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cape · Commission · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Private life · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · European · Fiction · Fiction, general · General · Literary Criticism · South Africa · Young women · Young women, fiction
Narrating Memory
Repealing Traditional Patriarchy in Two Male-Authored Narratives
The Ghost in the House
Siblinghood and coalition
Building new selves
The Ethics of Waste in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town
Properties of Whiteness
Zoë Wicomb, Cosmopolitanism, and the Making and Unmaking of History
The Urge to Nowhere
Looking from South Africa to the World
Culture, Testimony, and the Toolbox of Transitional Justice
Playing in the dark/ playing in the light
The Place of Nostalgia in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light
Zoë Wicomb and the Cape Cosmopolitan
A “place in which to cry”
Reading the Garden(ing) Trope in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
Reading Zoë Wicomb's Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings
Shadow Stories and Shadow Selves
Generation and complicity in Zoë Wicomb'sPlaying in the Light
Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
The ‘Redykyulass Generation‘S’ intellectual interventions in Kenyan public life
The Queer Son and the Declining Patriarch in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |