Shame and identity the case of the coloured in South Africa

Wicomb, Zoe. “Shame and identity the case of the coloured in South Africa.” Writing South Africa Literature, apartheid, and democracy, 1970 – 1995, edited by Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly, Cambridge University Press, First published 1998 Transferred to digital printing 2000. Pp. 91-107.

“Bartman then shows is how shame, cross-eyed and shy, stalks the postcolonial world broken mirror in hand, reproducing itself in puzzling distortions.” 92

“it is the very nature of shame to stifle its own discourse.” 92