{"id":56204,"date":"2018-04-13T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56204"},"modified":"2018-04-14T01:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T01:15:59","slug":"building-new-selves-identity-passing-and-intertextuality-in-zoe-wicombs-playing-in-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56204","title":{"rendered":"Building new selves: identity, \u201cPassing,\u201d and intertextuality in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s Playing in the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/17533171.2018.1453977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Building new selves: identity, \u201cPassing,\u201d and intertextuality in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Playing in the Light<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rsaf20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2018-04-03<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/17533171.2018.1453977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/17533171.2018.1453977<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.iupui.edu\/about\/directory\/hoegberg-david-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Hoegberg<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English; Africana Studies<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zo%C3%AB_Wicomb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s<\/a> wide-ranging use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intertextuality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intertextuality<\/a> in the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Playing in the Light<\/em><\/a> to explore the links between identity construction and postcolonial authorship. Focusing on the characters as intertextual agents, I argue that the three coloured women on whom the novel focuses \u2013 Helen, Marion, and Brenda \u2013 use texts in distinctive ways that illuminate their struggles to position themselves in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa\u2019s<\/a> complex and changing racial landscape. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial \u201cpassing\u201d<\/a> is one form of a larger pattern in the novel of the use of citation and imitation to achieve specific ends. By embedding the citations of Helen and Marion within the citation-rich narrative of Brenda, Wicomb lays bare the mechanisms of identity construction within a work that stages and highlights its own intertextual practices.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17533171.2018.1453977?needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article examines Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s wide-ranging use of intertextuality in the novel Playing in the Light to explore the links between identity construction and postcolonial authorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,1196,8,6462,520],"tags":[28457,28458,28461,28460,28459,3447],"class_list":["post-56204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-south-africa","tag-david-e-hoegberg","tag-david-hoegberg","tag-intertextuality","tag-safundi","tag-safundi-the-journal-of-south-african-and-american-studies","tag-zoe-wicomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56204","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=56204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56206,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56204\/revisions\/56206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}