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Author:   Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) ,  Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367503475

ISBN 10:   0367503476
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   25 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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