It traces the strange and ethically complex process by which real people, places and events are shuffled, patterned and plotted in long-form prose narrative.
It reads the country's transition as refracted through an array of documentary modes that are simultaneously refashioned and blurred into each other: long-form analytic journalism and reportage experiments in oral history, microhistory and archival reconstruction life-writing, memoir and the essay. Authors like Panashe Chigumadzi, Jacob Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Antjie Krog, Sisonke Msimang, Njabulo Ndebele, Jonny Steinberg and Ivan Vladislavic have produced a compelling and often controversial body of work, exploring the country's ongoing political and social transition with great ambition, texture and risk.Įxperiments with Truth is the first book-length account of non-fiction in South African literature. Over the last decades, South Africa has seen an outpouring of life writing and narrative non-fiction.
Unusable pasts scandalous lives political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.
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