Reading Zoƫ Wicomb's cosmopolitan, domestic and recursive settings
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2011
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Samuelson, M.
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Current Writing: text and reception in southern Africa, 2011; 23(2):88-92
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Meg Samuelson
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To read ZoĆ« Wicomb is to engage simultaneously with a ācitizen of the worldā and a āprovincial writerā. Moving between cosmopolitan and domestic settings, or setting in motion recursive structures that enfold the cosmos in the domestic and the domestic in the cosmos, Wicomb takes up the retelling of Cape hi/stories and cosmopolitan visions, presenting us with āanother storyā of what it might mean to be simultaneously local and worldly. Saturated with textual recursion and uncanny figures, her fictional settings advance and invite renewed analysis of domestic and/or cosmopolitan conditions.
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Ā© 2011 The Editorial Board, Current Writing