Abstract
Taking as its point of departure remarks made by Zoë Wicomb about fictional setting and intertexuality, this essay argues, in a close reading of the frame-narrator's imaginings of the character of Dulcie in Wicomb's David's Story, that the novel's recursive metafictional structure both subjects colonial narrative settings to irony, and shows how what we call setting may itself be irreducibly implicated in the play of desire between character and author.
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