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1 online resource (ix, 352 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: Zoë Wicomb's South African Essays: Intertextual Ethics, Translative Possibilities, and the Claims of Discursive Variety / by Andrew van der Vlies -- PART I HEARING THE VARIETY OF DISCOURSES. ONE. Tracing the Path from National to Official Culture (1991) -- TWO. Nation, Race, and Ethnicity: Beyond the Legacy of Victims (1991, 1992) -- THREE. Culture Beyond Color? A South African Dilemma (1993) -- FOUR. Reading, Writing, and Visual Production in the New South Africa (1995) -- FIVE. To Hear the Variety of Discourses (1990) -- SIX. Motherhood and the Surrogate Reader: Race, Gender, and Interpretation (1994) -- SEVEN. Shame and Identity: The Case of the Coloured in South Africa (1995-98) -- EIGHT. Remembering Nelson Mandela (2013) -- PART II INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE POSTCOLONIAL AUTHOR. NINE. Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness (1997-98) -- TEN. J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Translations in the Yard of Africa (2002) -- ELEVEN. Rereading Gordimer's July's People (2005, 2007) -- TWELVE. Natural Narrative and Tall Tales: Remembering District Six (2006, 2012) -- THIRTEEN. "Good Reliable Fictions": Nostalgia, Narration, and the Literary Narrative (2011) -- FOURTEEN. Identity, Writing, and Autobiography: The Case of Bessie Head's The Cardinals (1994) -- FIFTEEN. Setting, Intertextuality, and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial Author (2004, 2005) -- SIXTEEN. Coetzee's Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing (2009) -- PART III INTERVIEW. Intertextualities, Interdiscourses, and Intersectionalities: An Interview with Zoë Wicomb / conducted by Andrew van der Vlies -- APPENDIX 1. Transcript of Boeta Dickie in Conversation -- APPENDIX 2. Translated Transcript of Boeta Dickie in Conversation |
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The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J.M. Coetzee, as well as writings on gender politics, race, identity, visual art, sexuality, and a wide range of other cultural and political topics. Also included are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insight on her nation's history, policies, and people. In a world in which nationalist rhetoric is on the rise and diversity and pluralism are the declared enemies of right-wing populist movements, her essays speak powerfully to a wide range of international issues |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Wicomb, Zoë -- Political and social views
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Wicomb, Zoë -- Interviews
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Wicomb, Zoë fast |
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Cultural pluralism -- South Africa
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Cultural pluralism
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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South Africa -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
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South Africa -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125474
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South Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125486
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South Africa
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interviews.
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essays.
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Essays
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History
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Interviews
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Essays.
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Interviews.
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Essais.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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Van der Vlies, Andrew, 1974- editor, interviewer
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| ISBN |
9780300241150 |
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0300241151 |
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