{"id":10680,"date":"2010-12-10T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:52:34","slug":"%e2%80%98you-can-get-lost-in-cape-town%e2%80%99-transculturation-and-dislocation-in-zoe-wicomb%e2%80%99s-literary-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10680","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can Get Lost in Cape Town\u2019: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s Literary Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.afroeuropa.eu\/index.php\/afroeuropa\/article\/view\/116\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018You Can Get Lost in Cape Town\u2019: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s Literary Works<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.afroeuropa.eu\/index.php\/afroeuropa\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.afroeuropa.eu\/index.php\/afroeuropa\/issue\/view\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 3<\/a> (2008)<br \/>\n10 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez S\u00e1nchez-Vizca\u00edno<\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of C\u00f3rdoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zo%C3%AB_Wicomb\" target=\"_blank\">Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s<\/a> novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">coloured<\/a> condition\u2014mixed-race identity as defined by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South African<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_under_apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid<\/a> legislation\u2014and her diasporic experience as a South African living in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transculturation\" target=\"_blank\">Transculturation<\/a>, dislocation and inbetweenness emerge as central notions for the experience of many of Wicomb\u2019s characters, who often occupy an ambivalent and fluid space in which different cultural worlds and identities come into conflict and negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.afroeuropa.eu\/index.php\/afroeuropa\/article\/view\/116\/106\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You Can Get Lost in Cape Town\u2019: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez S\u00e1nchez-Vizca\u00edno, Professor of English University of C\u00f3rdoba In Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb\u2019s coloured condition\u2014mixed-race identity as defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,520,25],"tags":[4673,4672,4681,20756,3447],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","category-women","tag-afroeuropa","tag-afroeuropa-journal-of-afroeuropean-studies","tag-maria-jesus-lopez-sanchez-vizcaino","tag-south-africa","tag-zoe-wicomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}