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Title:Creative non-fiction: a conversation
Authors:Brown, DuncanISNI
Krog, AntjieISNI
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]