Experiments with Truth : Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa.
Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Melton :
Boydell & Brewer, Limited,
2019.
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Series: | African Articulations Ser.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; Preface: Encountering non-fiction; 1 Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches; 2 Unusable pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger; 3 Literatures of betrayal: Confession, collaboration and collapse in post-TRC narrative; 4 In search of lost archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory; 5 A very strange relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing; 6 Some claim to intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
- 7 In short, there are problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony8 Unknowable communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country; 9 A new more honest code: Memoirs of the 'born frees' and the futures of non-fiction; 10 Afterword: The extracurriculum; Bibliography; Index