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 |
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 |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Stewart Brownrigg |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40593 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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