- Title
- A “place in which to cry”: the place for race and a home for shame in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light
- Creator
- Dass, Minesh
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142588
- Identifier
- vital:38093
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2011.602910
- Description
- In Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light, the main character's troubled sense of identity (brought about by her parents' shameful decision to ‘play white’) is viscerally symbolised by her discomfort in her own and others' homes. In her Cape Town apartment she has nightmares about other houses. Her visits to her family home, where her elderly father lives alone, are similarly burdened by presences and memories she finds unwelcoming. And, her extended vacation to the UK, once she has discovered her family's secret, is a choice of “a place in which to cry” (Wicomb 2006: 191).
- Format
- 10 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Dass, M., 2011. A “place in which to cry”: The Place for Race and a Home for Shame in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 23(2), pp.137-146., Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa volume 23 number 2 137 146 November 2011 2159-9130
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