Getting Away with Diaspora: Scotland and South Africa in Zoë Wicomb’s The One that Got Away

Abstract

Questo articolo analizza le implicazioni legate alla diaspora nella narrativa di Zoë Wicomb, scrittrice nata in Sudafrica e migrata in Scozia durante l’apartheid. Appartenenza alla terra d’origine e radicamento in quella di adozione vengono tematizzati nella sua narrativa, dove si caratterizzano in modo tale da rivelare la costruzione ideologica dei concetti di ‘nazione’ e ‘casa’. Mi soffermerò in particolare sulla seconda raccolta di racconti di Wicomb, The One that Got Away (2008), con la sua doppia ambientazione in Sudafrica e Scozia.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-5

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Photographs

Figure 1 – Doulton Fountain,Glasgow by Jacqueline Banerjee http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/fountains/3.html [accessed on 31 July, 2015]

Figure 2 - Doulton Fountain (detail), Glasgow by Fergus Murray (courtesy of the author).