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Zoë Wicomb's complex and deeply evocative fiction is among the most distinguished recent works of South African women's literature. It is also among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of "Coloured" citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, "in the racial crucible of their country.
"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a part with Nadine Gordimer and J.M.Coetzee." - Wall St. Journal
Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape."-Seattle Times
"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories."-Bharati Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review
For course use in: African literature, African studies, growing up female, world literature, women's studies
Zoe Wicomb was born in 1948 and raised in Namaquland, South Africa. After 20 years voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Marcia Wright is professor of history at Columbia University and a member of the executive committee for the Women Writing Africa series. Carol Sicherman is professor emerita of English at Lehman College, CUNY.
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ZOE WICOMB was born in 1948 and raised in Namaquland, South Africa. After 20 years voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
MARCIA WRIGHT is professor of history at Columbia University and a member of the executive committee for the Women Writing Africa series.
CAROL SICHERMAN is professor emerita of English at Lehman College, CUNY.
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"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a part with Nadine Gordimer and J.M.Coetzee." -- The Wall Street Journal
"[Wicomb]is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography ..." -- Bharati Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394560302
- ISBN 13 9780394560304
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages185
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1987. April 1987. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394560302. 185 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Roger Palmer. Jacket design by Louise Fili. keywords: Africa South Africa Literature Women World Literature. DESCRIPTION - You Can 't Get Lost in Cape Town introduces American readers to a compelling new voice from South Africa. Zoe Wicomb's book of connected stories is a superb portrayal of a woman coming to terms with her rejected past, acknowledging the price of having strayed from the culture that shaped her. Frieda Shenton has returned from England, a reluctant visitor to the country from which, as a young woman, she sought to escape. She had left behind her childhood in a rural South African township and later experiences of living and working in Cape Town, where she discovered - despite her father's optimism - that education, for a black woman, means neither freedom nor an end to personal insecurity. Now, years later, return brings a fresh perspective on life in Namaqualand and life in exile, as Frieda visits family, talks with friends, and glimpses the clandestine resistance movement. Through Wicomb's subtle and compelling portraits, we discover the daily frustrations of life under the twin banes of colonialism and segregation. We meet Frieda's quirky family - her cousin Jan Klinkies, who recites years-old weather reports and refuses to drink the coffee that comes in a box decorated with Boer figures; her mother, humiliated in her attempts to master the intricacies of spoken English. We also encounter the odd side-effects of prejudice with Frieda as a young girl, waiting at a train station to be delivered to the formerly all-white high school when a defiant black man challenges her decision to attend. And, through Frieda, we discover the link between the personal and the political, the concept of apartheid and the reality of waiting at the clinic until the doctor finishes with the white patients across town. Zoe Wicomb lends a personal and eloquent dimension to objective reports, taking us inside the lives of the people to create an important and evocative work of literature. Zoe Wicomb was born in Cape Province, South Africa, and moved to England in 1970. She is a teacher of English and lives in Nottingham. inventory #8076. Seller Inventory # z8076
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