Abstract
Discusses the novel Still Life (2020) by the Scottish/South African writer Zoë Wicomb, which portrays a contemporary novelist researching the life and significance of the Scottish/South African poet Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) through an imaginative collaboration with an early 20th century bellelettristic biographer (referencing Virginia Woolf's imaginative biography Orlando) and with the intervention of two African figures Pringle believed himself to have liberated, the West Indian ex-slave Mary Prince (c. 1788-1833) and Hinza, the Tswana boy memorialized in one of Pringle's best-known South African poems, suggesting that Wicomb's novel (and her oeuvre) present an important transnational version of authorial identity of wider significance in the current development of Scottish literary studies [PGS].
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Simon
(2021)
"Serious Play on the Fringes of Empire: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle, and the Transnational Author,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
1, 171–177.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss1/14
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