Gurnah, Abdulrazak S (2011) The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 12 (3-4). pp. 261-275. ISSN 1753-3171. (doi:10.1080/17533171.2011.586828) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:40593)
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| Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2011.586828 |
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Abstract
This essay tackles an important subject – cosmopolitanism – and relates this to travel and provincialism in Wicomb's fiction, drawing on Fanon, Bhabha and Gilroy, and discussing three of Wicomb's major works. It draws a link between place and memory, and how in Wicomb's work the latter is obscured by shame. It detects a productive tension in Wicomb's writing between the value of travel and the value of rootedness in one place, and proposes its resolution in the privileging of ambivalent moments of experience.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/17533171.2011.586828 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Wicomb, Cosmopolitanism, Memory, Cape, Travel, Rootedness |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English philology and language |
| Institutional Unit: | Schools > Language Centre |
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Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
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| Depositing User: | Stewart Brownrigg |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2025 08:50 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40593 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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