1st Edition
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal Writing Scotland & South Africa
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Derek Attridge
Chapter 2. Zoë Wicomb’s Translocal: Troubling the Politics of Location
Dorothy Driver
Chapter 3. The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Chapter 4. ‘No Escape from Home’: History, Affect and Art in Zoë Wicomb’s Translocal Coincidences
Derek Attridge
Chapter 5. ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow
Kai Easton
Chapter 6. Zoë Wicomb’s Telescopic Visions: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town & October
Cóilín Parsons
Chapter 7. Roamin’ the Gloamin’: Scottish Ghosts of Griqualand in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
Shaun Irlam
Chapter 8. History, Critical Cosmopolitanism and Translocal Mobility in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb
Pamela Scully
Chapter 9. Lost and Found: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle and the Translocal in
Scottish–South African Literary Relations
David Attwell
Chapter 10. Glasgow’s Empire Exhibition and the Interspatial Imagination in ‘There’s the Bird That Never Flew’
John Miller and Mariangela Palladino
Chapter 11. Scenes from Namaqualand
Sophia Klaase
Introduction by Rick Rohde
Chapter 12. Unsettling Homes and the Provincial-cosmopolitan Point of View in Zoë Wicomb’s October
Meg Samuelson
Chapter 13. My Name is HannaH: Arthur Nortje Memorial Lecture
Zoë Wicomb
Chapter 14. Zoë Wicomb in Conversation with Derek Attridge
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS University of London, UK.
Derek Attridge is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.
