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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-275 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Safundi |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Political Science and International Relations