{"id":53819,"date":"2017-05-05T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53819"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:03:57","slug":"playing-in-the-light-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53819","title":{"rendered":"Playing in the Light: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playing in the Light: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Press<\/a>
\nNovember 2007
\n224 pages
\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-59558-221-8<\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Wicomb<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Professor
\nUniversity of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town<\/a>, Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid<\/a> society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As Alison McCulloch<\/a> noted in the New York Times<\/em>, \u201cWicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglory\u2014denial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fear\u2014and manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> throws up information that brings into question not only her family\u2019s past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society. \u201cStylistically nuanced and psychologically astute\u201d (Kirkus), Playing in the Light<\/em> is as powerful in its depiction of Marion\u2019s personal journey as it is in its depiction of South Africa\u2019s<\/a> bizarre, brutal history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,8,15,6462,520],"tags":[4748,3447],"class_list":["post-53819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-south-africa","tag-the-new-press","tag-zoe-wicomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819","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=53819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53820,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions\/53820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}