‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary WorksPosted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, South Africa, Women on 2010-12-10 16:32Z by Steven |
‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works
Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies
Volume 2, Number 3 (2008)
10 pages
María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English
University of Córdoba
In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined by South African apartheid legislation—and her diasporic experience as a South African living in Scotland. Transculturation, dislocation and inbetweenness emerge as central notions for the experience of many of Wicomb’s characters, who often occupy an ambivalent and fluid space in which different cultural worlds and identities come into conflict and negotiation.
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