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- Title: Secular Blackness in Zoe Wicomb's Short Stories (Critical Essay)
- Author : Sope Maithufi
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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The South African short stories of the seventies and eighties such as Njabulo Ndebele, (1) Mandla Langa, and Bheki Maseko's explore the sense of racial negation by privileging journeys via memory to the apartheid that is being negotiated. (2) In these stories, it does not seem possible to rise above the dominant order without first mapping its archaeology. An apt illustration of this dialectic is the drawing in which Joel Matlou focuses on his father's employer's pair of spectacles that mirrors what appears to be Matlou's father pushing a wheelbarrow. The eyeglasses function as a metaphor through which Matlou junior develops insight into how black people cultivate spiritual strength in being aware of the extent of the inanity that underpins the dominion such as implied in the cold aloofness of his father's employer, that is, the one who in Matlou's drawing is wearing glasses. In other words, what the mirror reflects back to Matlou junior is a history of toil that his father overshadows via his alertness to his master's indifference. (3) In this article, the feminist slant of Zoe Wicomb's stories, suggested in the use of the female storyteller's narration of the black experience, is explored as an enterprise of memory. First, narration is discussed as a project of memory. Next, readings of several stories in which the storyteller examines the portraits of depersonalisation, as well as the narrative spaces that she opens in order to move away from the revisionist responses to colonialism are given.