Overview

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, South Africa, and Australia, demonstrating Wicomb’s importance as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. The central focus of the volume is the translocal, a term that navigates the complex and shifting relations between disparate localities, respecting the situatedness of each locality within its immediate geopolitical context, while investigating the connections and contrasts that operate between them. In Wicomb’s case, her work stems from a dual allegiance to two localities, both in her fiction as in her life: South Africa’s Western Cape and the west of Scotland. In tracking the relations, contemporary and historical, between these sites, her fiction reveals a consistent interest in and interrogation of home and belonging, space and place; it also offers telling insights into questions of race and gender. The historical processes of colonization and migration that have produced translocal connections of this kind are central to postcolonial studies, to which this book makes a significant contribution. Exploring the visual and cartographical, and extending debates on the transnational and cosmopolitan that are currently taking place across disciplines, including literary studies, geography, history, politics, and anthropology, the collection covers the range of Wicomb’s work. It also features an unanthologised essay by Wicomb herself, an interview, and a suite of photographs by Sophia Klaase, whose images of Namaqualand inspired Wicomb’s most recent novel, October.

Full Product Details

Author:   Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) ,  Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138237414

ISBN 10:   1138237418
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   09 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Derek Attridge Chapter 2. Zoë Wicomb’s Translocal: Troubling the Politics of Location Dorothy Driver Chapter 3. The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism Abdulrazak Gurnah Chapter 4. ‘No Escape from Home’: History, Affect and Art in Zoë Wicomb’s Translocal Coincidences Derek Attridge Chapter 5. ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow Kai Easton Chapter 6. Zoë Wicomb’s Telescopic Visions: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town & October Cóilín Parsons Chapter 7. Roamin’ the Gloamin’: Scottish Ghosts of Griqualand in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story Shaun Irlam Chapter 8. History, Critical Cosmopolitanism and Translocal Mobility in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb Pamela Scully Chapter 9. Lost and Found: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle and the Translocal in Scottish–South African Literary Relations David Attwell Chapter 10. Glasgow’s Empire Exhibition and the Interspatial Imagination in ‘There’s the Bird That Never Flew’ John Miller and Mariangela Palladino Chapter 11. Scenes from Namaqualand Sophia Klaase Introduction by Rick Rohde Chapter 12. Unsettling Homes and the Provincial-cosmopolitan Point of View in Zoë Wicomb’s October Meg Samuelson Chapter 13. My Name is HannaH: Arthur Nortje Memorial Lecture Zoë Wicomb Chapter 14. Zoë Wicomb in Conversation with Derek Attridge Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

Author Information

Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS University of London, UK. Derek Attridge is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions