Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics: The Surge of the Sea in Zoë Wicomb's Fiction.

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 chal...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 543 - 558
Autor principal:	Samuelson, Meg
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2010
Materias:	Wicomb, Zoë, 1948-2025 You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (Book) Playing in the Light (Book) David's Story (Book) Ocean in literature Fiction African women authors Travel writing
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