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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 543 - 558 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2010
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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