David's Story

by Zoë Wicomb, Dorothy Driver (Afterword)

Overview

"A tremendous achievement and a huge step in the remaking of the South African novel."--J. M Coetzee

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558613980
Publisher:	Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Women Writing Africa
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Zoe Wicomb was born in 1948 and raised in Namaquland, South Africa. After 20 years voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Editorial Reviews

"For years we have been waiting to see what the literature of post-apartheid South Africa will look like. Now Zoë Wicomb delivers the goods. Witty in tone, sophisticated in technique, eclectic in language, beholden to no one in its politics, David's Story is a tremendous achievement and a huge step in the remaking of the South African novel."
-J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace

"A delicate, powerful novel, guided by the paradoxes of witnessing the certainties of national liberation and the uncertainties of ground-level hybrid identity, the mysteries of sexual exchange, the austerity of political fiction. Wicomb's book belongs on a shelf with books by Maryse Condé and Yvette Christiansë."
-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

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