Wicomb, Zoë
About Zoë Wicomb
Author Details (Scottish Book Trust)
Biography (Africa is a Country)
"Yale awards $1.35 Million to Nine Writers." Yale News, 4 Mar. 2013
Reviews
Nthunya, Manosa. "Zoë Wicomb: A Lesson in Reading." City Press, 21 May 2019
Livesey, Janet Mary. "October by Zoë Wicomb." World Literature Today, Sep. 2014
Driver, Dorothy. "The One that Got Away by Zoë Wicomb." English in Africa, vol. 37, no. 2, Oct. 2010
Mukherjee, Bharati. "They Never Wanted to Be Themselves." The New York Times, 24 May 1987
Interviews
Mengel, Ewald. "Washing Dirty Linen in Public: An Interview with Zoë Wicomb." Matatu, vol. 38, no. 1, 2010
Mayer, Stephan, and Thomas Oliver. "Zoë Wicomb Interviewed on Writing and Nation." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 1/2, 2002
Criticism
Duncan, Rebecca. South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-Apartheid Imagination and Beyond, 2018
Giffel, Kaelie. "Historical Violence and Modernist Forms in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, 2018
Phiri, Aretha. "Black, White and Everything in-between: Unravelling the Times with Zoë Wicomb." English in Africa, vol. 45, no. 2, 2018
Eastley, Aaron. "Diasporic Transnationalism in Zoë Wicomb's The One That Got Away and October." Research in African Literatures, vol. 48, no. 4, 2017
Easton, Kai, and Derek Attridge. Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa, 2017
Negri, Alexandra. "Gendered Inclusions and Exclusions in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story." Current Writing, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017
Ngwira, Emmanuel. "Gendering the Transnational: History, Migration, and Material Culture in Zoë Wicomb's The One That Got Away and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck." Social Dynamics, vol. 43, no. 2, 2017
Wiegandt, Kai. "Guilt, Shame and the Politics of Moral Change in Antjie Krog's and Zoë Wicomb's Literary Responses to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 4, 2017
Jacobs, J.U. Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction, 2016
Samuelson, Meg. "Reading Nostalgia and Beyond: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Race; and, Learning to Read, Again, with Zoë Wicomb." English in Africa, vol. 43, no. 3, 2016
Dunton, Chris. "Sara Baartman and the Ethics of Representation." Research in African Literatures, vol. 46, no. 2, 2015
Manus, Vicki Briault. "The Aesthetics of Indigenization in Post-Apartheid Black South African Literature." Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/ Colonial Literatures in English, vol. 179, Kuorotti and Falk (eds.), 2014
Baderoon, Gabeba. "The Ghost in the House: Women, Race, and Domesticity in South Africa." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014
Herrero, Dolores. "Plight Versus Right: Trauma and the Process of Recovering and Moving Beyond the Past in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light." Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation, Calvo and Nadal (eds.), 2014
Moonsamy, Nedine. "Spectral Citizenry: Reflections of the 'Post-transitional' in Contemporary South African Literature." English Studies in Africa, vol. 57, no. 2, 2014
Siméus, Jenny. "Complex Collaborations: Elsa Joubert's The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena and Zoë Wicomb's David's Story." ARIEL, vol. 45, no. 1/2, 2014
Van der Vlies, Andrew. "'I'm only Grateful that It's not A Cape Town Book.', or: Zoë Wicomb, Textuality, Propriety, and the Proprietary." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, 2013
Dass, Minesh. "'Amanuensis' and 'Steatopygia': The Complexity of 'Telling the Tale' in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story." English in Africa, vol. 38, no. 2, 2011
Olaussen, Maria. "Generation and Complicity in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light." Cross/ Cultures: Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life, vol. 130, Helgesson (ed.), 2011
Daymond, M.J. "'Inventing a New Language for Reconstructing Ourselves': Zoë Wicomb's South African Fiction." Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth, vol. 8, no. 1-12, 2011
Driver, Dorothy. "The Struggle Over the Sign: Writing and History in Zoë Wicomb's Art." Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2010
Kossew, Sue. "Re-Reading the Past: Monuments, History and Representation in Short Stories by Ivan Vladislavic and Zoë Wicomb." Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2010
Graham, Shane. South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss, 2009
Deb, Basuli. "Turning a Deaf Ear: Women's Wounds in Truth Reconciliation." Healing South African Wounds/Guérir les blessures de l'Afrique du Sud, , Teulié and Joseph-Vilain (eds.), 2009
Barry, Benita. "The Presence of the Past in Peripheral Modernities." Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology, Goebel and Schabio (eds.), 2006
Attridge, Derek. "Zoë Wicomb's Home Truths." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 41, no. 2, 2005
Nkosi, Lewis. "The Republic of Letters after the Mandela Republic." Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis, Stiebel and Gunner (eds.), 2005
Richards, Constance S. "Nationalism and the Development of Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Zoë Wicomb and Michelle Cliff." Research in African Literatures, vol. 36, no. 1, 2005
Lenta, Patrick. "The Tikoloshe and the Reasonable Man: Transgressing South African Legal Fictions." Law and Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 2004
Driver, Dorothy. "Transformation through Art: Writing, Representation, and Subjectivity in Recent South African Fiction." World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 1, 1996
Gaylard, Rob. "Exile and Homecoming: Identity in Zoë Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town." ARIEL, vol. 27, no. 1, 1996
Viola, André. "Zoë Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Coloured Girl." Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English, Bardolph (ed.), 1989
Works
Novels
October (2014)
Playing in the Light (2008)
David's Story (2002)
Short Story Collections
The One that Got Away (2009)
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Race, Nation, Translation (2018)
"Nelson Mandela." The New Yorker, 2013
"Culture beyond Color? A South African Dilemma." African Literature, 2007
"My Name is Hannah: Arthur Nortje Memorial Lecture." English Academy Review, vol. 22, 2005
"Setting Intertextuality and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 41, no. 2, 2005
"South African Short Fiction and Orality." Telling Stories, 2001
"Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation and Whiteness." Social Identities, vol. 4, no. 3, 1998
"Shame and Identity: The Case of the Coloured in South Africa." Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid and Democracy: 1970-1995, 1998
Brink, André, Wicomb, Zoë and Mazisi Kunene. "South African Writers and the Problem of Languages." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1993
"Nation, Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the Legacy of Victims." Current Writing, vol. 4, no. 1, 1992
"To Hear the Variety of Discourses." Current Writing, vol. 2, no. 1, 1990
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Zoë Wicomb at the Dunde Literary Salons: Part 1. Vimeo, 19 Jun. 2009
Zoë Wicomb at the Dunde Literary Salons: Part 2. Vimeo, 17 Jun. 2009