Amazing Cityscapes and Contextualized Reading in Zoe Wicomb's ‘You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town’
The aim of this paper is to show how the journey through the suburbs and the city centre of Cape Town of the main protagonist and focalizer of the eponymous story, Sallie Smit, can be perceived differently by a reader who knows the actual topography of the place and by the uninformed reader. Besides...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | The aim of this paper is to show how the journey through the suburbs and the city centre of Cape Town of the main protagonist and focalizer of the eponymous story, Sallie Smit, can be perceived differently by a reader who knows the actual topography of the place and by the uninformed reader. Besides, as in many postcolonial texts, the knowledge of the socio-historical background of the story is essential, as is illustrated through the study of the very rich metaphor ‘Desire is a Tsafendas tapeworm’, which is likely to be misconstrued by a reader who, solely interested in stylistics, would disregard the historical reference. As a result, textuality is viewed as the complex blending (or conflation) of contextual, extratextual and stylistic elements. |
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