'Amanuensis' and 'Steatopygia': the complexity of 'Telling the Tale 'in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story

Dass, Minesh

Title: 'Amanuensis' and 'Steatopygia': the complexity of 'Telling the Tale 'in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story
Creator: Dass, Minesh
Date Issued: 2011
Date: 2011
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142599
Identifier: vital:38094
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v38i2.3
Description: Two words, 'amanuensis' and 'steatopygia,' each burdened with its own history, appear in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story with a frequency that commands further consideration. This study shows that these two words are in fact narratives which reveal the tension, inherent in all historical narratives, between that which is denotative or factual and that which is connotative or fictional. Similarly, the words also form the shifting horizon from which we may see history as a narrative of the past that is always also a narrative of the present. The link between these words will ultimately show the complex, compromised role of the narrator and, perhaps, of all historians.
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: English in Africa
Relation: Dass, M., 2011. 'Amanuensis' and 'Steatopygia': the complexity of 'Telling the Tale 'in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story. English in Africa, 38(2), pp.45-60
Relation: English in Africa volume 38 number 2 45 60 August 2011 0376-8902
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Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English In Africa Copyright Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eia/about/submissions#copyrightNotice)

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