Аннотация:Focussing on Z. Wicomb's The One That Got Away this paper aims to reconsider the work of genre in a postcolonial and cosmopolitan context. It will be argued that the form of interrelated stories provides an opportunity to link the aesthetic and political dimension of Wicomb's writing: as her self-reflexive use of modes of repetition can be related to S. Benhabib's conceptualization of repetition as a strategy of cosmopolitan participation The One That Got Away can be read as a skeptical contribution to the project of narrating communality on a transnational scale.
