Zoe Wicomb and the Translocal: Scotland and South Africa

This is the third and final event in a series of conferences focussed on the award-winning Scotland-based South African author. 

The conference will offer a rare opportunity to hear readings by Wicomb herself, as well as JM Coetzee, Elleke Boehmer, Brian Chikwava, Patrick Flanery, Michael Cawood Green, and Abdulrazak Gurnah.  In addition, there will be academic papers by leading scholars in the field, including Dorothy Driver, Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Nadia Davids, Sam Durrant, Kai Easton, Shaun Irlam, and Meg Samuelson. 

Hosted by the University of York’s Departments of English and Related Literature and History, this cross-disciplinary conference considers the attention to and interrogation of home and belonging, space and place found in Wicomb’s work, and will be of interest to those who work on contemporary British and World literatures, as well as colonial and contemporary British and African history.  

You can register directly at our eventbrite page.  See http://wicombandthetranslocal.wordpress.com/ for more information, or contact us on wicombandthetranslocal@gmail.com.

Wicomb Poster (PDF , 2,426kb)