Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics
The Surge of the Sea in Zoë Wicomb's Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4604203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Samuelson (0000-0002-5070-1046, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 543-557 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2010.507539 |
| OpenAlex | W2057072679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article offers a close reading of the sea – as trope, archive, and living presence – in Wicomb's oeuvre. Charting the undercurrents of meaning rippling across Wicomb's texts, it finds in the sea an emblem of Wicomb's aesthetic and ethical concerns. The sea is shown to house an archive that challenges nationalist histories and unsettles their temporal divisions, throwing textual meaning and identities into flux. It summons readers to recognise the uncanny return of repressed narratives and to embark on trans-oceanic readings of local and land-bound narratives and histories
Aesthetics · Art · Emblem · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Uncanny · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |