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18 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/ces.8305
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Fiona McCann, « Broadening and Narrowing Horizons in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.8305
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In her most recent work of fiction, The One That Got Away (2008), a short story cycle of both place and character, Wicomb continues her exploration of the limits of the short story genre. This article shows how, as characters slip in and out of stories, and as the topographical, cultural and lexical signifiers of one place are blended with or usurp those of the other city, Wicomb gradually interrogates the potentially enriching yet often limited cultural exchanges between Capetonian and Glaswegian characters. A study of her formal reflection of the aborted or confused communication between characters will lead to an analysis of her interrogation of the writing process.