Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa

Hedley Twidle

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Experiments with Truth

Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa

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Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: September 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781787445079
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787445079

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts
Series:: African Articulations

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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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Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface: Encountering non-fiction
pp vii-xiv

1 - Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches
pp 1-20

2 - Unusable pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger
pp 21-46

3 - Literatures of betrayal: Confession, collaboration and collapse in post-TRC narrative
pp 47-70

4 - In search of lost archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory
pp 71-96

5 - A very strange relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing
pp 97-122

6 - Some claim to intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
pp 123-140

7 - In short, there are problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony
pp 141-158

8 - Unknowable communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country
pp 159-184

9 - A new more honest code: Memoirs of the ‘born frees’ and the futures of non-fiction
pp 185-212

10 - Afterword: The extracurriculum
pp 213-224

Bibliography
pp 225-240

Index
pp 241-250

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 251-251

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