A “place in which to cry”: the place for race and a home for shame in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light

Dass, Minesh

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 Issued: 2011
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
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Relation: 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.
Relation: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa volume 23 number 2 137 146 November 2011 2159-9130
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