“We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb

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https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.11069

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South African literature, identity politics, legacies of settler colonialism, Still Life, Zoë Wicomb

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Author Biographies

  • Zoë Wicomb

    Zoë Wicomb is the internationally acclaimed author of six works of fiction and one collection of essays, as well as a winner of the 2013 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

  • Yuan-Chih Yen, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Yuan-Chich (Sreddy) Yen obtained their MA from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently a PhD student in the Department of English, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US.

References

De Vries, Izak. “Still life, An Interview with Zoë Wicomb.” LitNet. 25 Nov. 2020. https://www.litnet.co.za/still-life-an-interview-with-zoe-wicomb/.

Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe vol. 12, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–14.

Jamal, Ashraf. Predicaments of Culture in South Africa. U of South Africa P, 2005.

Lever, Carla & Nal’ibali. “I Am Not Alone in Questioning History”. Sunday Times. 19 Oct. 2020. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2020-10-19-i-am-not-alone-in-questioning-history-zo-wicomb/.

Van der Vlies, Andrew. “Intertextualities, Interdiscourses, and Intersectionalities.” Race, Nation, Translation, edited by Andrew van der Vlies. Yale U P, 2018. pp. 261–81.

Wicomb, Zoë. David’s Story. Kwela, 2000.

Wicomb, Zoë. Still Life. The New Press, 2020.

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Published

2021-10-27

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Vol. 58 No. 2 (2021)

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Interviews

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Wicomb, Z. ., & Yen, Y.-C. (2021). “We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb. Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 58(2), 118-121. https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.11069