Reading Nostalgia and Beyond: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Race; and, Learning to Read, Again, with Zoë Wicomb.
Nudged into a new interpretive approach by a comment in her most recent novel, this essay presents an account of reading Wicomb's fiction that seeks to move beyond what Ricoeur describes as a "hermeneutics of suspicion," and that responds to it rather as a gathering in which reader and text are mutu...
| Publicado en: | English in Africa Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 117 - 140 |
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