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...
| Published in: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 543 - 558 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2010
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