Experiments with Truth
Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2019
265 pages
978-1-78744-507-9 (ISBN)
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Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.
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Hedley Twidle
Experiments with Truth
Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa
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James Currey
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Content
Preface: Encountering non-fiction
Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches
Unusable Pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger
Literatures of Betrayal: Collaboration, confession and collapse in post-TRC narrative
In Search of Lost Archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory
A Very Strange Relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing
Some Claim to Intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
In Short, There Are Problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony
Unknowable Communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country
A New More Honest Code: Memoirs of the "born frees" and the futures of non-fiction
Afterword: The extracurriculum
Bibliography
Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches
Unusable Pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger
Literatures of Betrayal: Collaboration, confession and collapse in post-TRC narrative
In Search of Lost Archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory
A Very Strange Relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing
Some Claim to Intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
In Short, There Are Problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony
Unknowable Communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country
A New More Honest Code: Memoirs of the "born frees" and the futures of non-fiction
Afterword: The extracurriculum
Bibliography
