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Title: | Creative non-fiction: a conversation |
Authors: | Brown, Duncan Krog, Antjie |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (ISSN 2159-9130) |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 57-70 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | prose journalism |
Abstract: | Creative non-fiction has become in a sense 'the genre' of South African writing: writing which makes its meanings at the unstable fault line of the literary and the journalistic, the imaginative and the reportorial. Duncan Brown and Antjie Krog engage in a dialogue about the possibilities of the genre of creative non-fiction in South Africa, in particular for negotiating/narrating the complexities of postapartheid identities. The discussion also covers some of the ethical issues around creative non-fiction, as well as the ways in which the expectations and conventions of the genre(s) may 'position' the author and reader. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |