Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION: ZOË WICOMB’S SOUTH AFRICAN ESSAYS: INTERTEXTUAL ETHICS, TRANSLATIVE POSSIBILITIES, AND THE CLAIMS OF DISCURSIVE VARIETY 1
5. Part One. HEARING THE VARIETY OF DISCOURSES
6. 1. TRACING THE PATH FROM NATIONAL TO OFFICIAL CULTURE (1991) 37
7. 2. NATION, RACE, AND ETHNICITY: BEYOND THE LEGACY OF VICTIMS (1991, 1992) 53
8. 3. CULTURE BEYOND COLOR? A SOUTH AFRICAN DILEMMA (1993) 58
9. 4. READING, WRITING, AND VISUAL PRODUCTION IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA (1995) 66
10. 5. TO HEAR THE VARIETY OF DISCOURSES (1990) 81
11. 6. MOTHERHOOD AND THE SURROGATE READER: RACE, GENDER, AND INTERPRETATION (1994) 92
12. 7. SHAME AND IDENTITY: THE CASE OF THE COLOURED IN SOUTH AFRICA (1995–98) 114
13. 8. REMEMBERING NELSON MANDELA (2013) 128
14. Part Two. INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE POSTCOLONIAL AUTHOR
15. 9. FIVE AFRIKANER TEXTS AND THE REHABILITATION OF WHITENESS (1997–98) 133
16. 10. J. M. COETZEE’S DISGRACE: TRANSLATIONS IN THE YARD OF AFRICA (2002) 157
17. 11. REREADING GORDIMER’S JULY’S PEOPLE (2005, 2007) 170
18. 12. NATURAL NARRATIVE AND TALL TALES: REMEMBERING DISTRICT SIX (2006, 2012) 188
19. 13. “GOOD RELIABLE FICTIONS”: NOSTALGIA, NARRATION, AND THE LITERARY NARRATIVE (2011) 203
20. 14. IDENTITY, WRITING, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF BESSIE HEAD’S THE CARDINALS (1994) 217
21. 15. SETTING, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE POSTCOLONIAL AUTHOR (2004, 2005) 229
22. 16. COETZEE’S SLOW MAN AND THE REAL: A LESSON IN READING AND WRITING (2009) 241
23. Part Three. INTERVIEW
24. INTERTEXTUALITIES, INTERDISCOURSES, AND INTERSECTIONALITIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ZOË WICOMB 261
25. Appendix 1. TRANSCRIPT OF BOETA DICKIE IN CONVERSATION 283
26. Appendix 2. TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT OF BOETA DICKIE IN CONVERSATION 287
27. NOTES 291
28. BIBLIOGRAPHY 329
29. INDEX 343