Race, nation, translation : South African essays, 1990-2013 / Zoë Wicomb ; [edited by] Andrew van der Vlies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicomb, Zoë, author.

Contributor:

van der Vlies, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wicomb, Zoë--Political and social views.

Wicomb, Zoë.

Cultural pluralism--South Africa.

Cultural pluralism.

South Africa--History.

South Africa.

Genre:

Essays.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as writings on gender politics, race, identity, visual art, sexuality, and a wide range of other cultural and political topics. Also included are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insight on her nation's history, policies, and people. In a world in which nationalist rhetoric is on the rise and diversity and pluralism are the declared enemies of right-wing populist movements, her essays speak powerfully to a wide range of international issues.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION: ZOË WICOMB'S SOUTH AFRICAN ESSAYS: INTERTEXTUAL ETHICS, TRANSLATIVE POSSIBILITIES, AND THE CLAIMS OF DISCURSIVE VARIETY

Part One. HEARING THE VARIETY OF DISCOURSES

1. TRACING THE PATH FROM NATIONAL TO OFFICIAL CULTURE (1991)

2. NATION, RACE, AND ETHNICITY: BEYOND THE LEGACY OF VICTIMS (1991, 1992)

3. CULTURE BEYOND COLOR? A SOUTH AFRICAN DILEMMA (1993)

4. READING, WRITING, AND VISUAL PRODUCTION IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA (1995)

5. TO HEAR THE VARIETY OF DISCOURSES (1990)

6. MOTHERHOOD AND THE SURROGATE READER: RACE, GENDER, AND INTERPRETATION (1994)

7. SHAME AND IDENTITY: THE CASE OF THE COLOURED IN SOUTH AFRICA (1995-98)

8. REMEMBERING NELSON MANDELA (2013)

Part Two. INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE POSTCOLONIAL AUTHOR

9. FIVE AFRIKANER TEXTS AND THE REHABILITATION OF WHITENESS (1997-98)

10. J. M. COETZEE'S DISGRACE: TRANSLATIONS IN THE YARD OF AFRICA (2002)

11. REREADING GORDIMER'S JULY'S PEOPLE (2005, 2007)

12. NATURAL NARRATIVE AND TALL TALES: REMEMBERING DISTRICT SIX (2006, 2012)

13. "GOOD RELIABLE FICTIONS": NOSTALGIA, NARRATION, AND THE LITERARY NARRATIVE (2011)

14. IDENTITY, WRITING, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF BESSIE HEAD'S THE CARDINALS (1994)

15. SETTING, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE POSTCOLONIAL AUTHOR (2004, 2005)

16. COETZEE'S SLOW MAN AND THE REAL: A LESSON IN READING AND WRITING (2009)

Part Three. INTERVIEW

INTERTEXTUALITIES, INTERDISCOURSES, AND INTERSECTIONALITIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ZOË WICOMB

Appendix 1. TRANSCRIPT OF BOETA DICKIE IN CONVERSATION

Appendix 2. TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT OF BOETA DICKIE IN CONVERSATION.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed September 20, 2019).

ISBN:

9780300241150

0300241151

OCLC:

1060523951