This is the first book on the fiction of Zoe Wicomb, a writer long
at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international
stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham
Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together
interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, South Africa, and
Australia, demonstrating Wicomb's importance as a novelist,
short-story writer, and critic. The central focus of the volume is
the translocal, a term that navigates the complex and shifting
relations between disparate localities, respecting the situatedness
of each locality within its immediate geopolitical context, while
investigating the connections and contrasts that operate between
them. In Wicomb's case, her work stems from a dual allegiance to
two localities, both in her fiction as in her life: South Africa's
Western Cape and the west of Scotland. In tracking the relations,
contemporary and historical, between these sites, her fiction
reveals a consistent interest in and interrogation of home and
belonging, space and place; it also offers telling insights into
questions of race and gender. The historical processes of
colonization and migration that have produced translocal
connections of this kind are central to postcolonial studies, to
which this book makes a significant contribution. Exploring the
visual and cartographical, and extending debates on the
transnational and cosmopolitan that are currently taking place
across disciplines, including literary studies, geography, history,
politics, and anthropology, the collection covers the range of
Wicomb's work. It also features an unanthologised essay by Wicomb
herself, an interview, and a suite of photographs by Sophia Klaase,
whose images of Namaqualand inspired Wicomb's most recent novel,
October.
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