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- Title
Tracing the Seam: Narrative Journalism and Imaginings in South African Literature.
- Authors
Mulgrew, Nick
- Abstract
The epistemic violence that has replaced South Africa's violent past has for many reasons brought forth a multitude of texts that seek to portray South Africa and its fractured population, fusing literary modes with journalistic sensibility to create a body of work that is becoming entrenched as one of South Africa's most dynamic and celebrated literary genres. This paper provides a wide-ranging portrait of narrative journalism in South Africa: its differing relations to the country's fiction and journalism; its place within the contexts of postcolonialism, postmodernity, and media tabloidization; and its potential as a means of adequately depicting, articulating, and laying bare South Africa's scenes of unresolved cultural, political, and epistemological difference. This paper will also focus on the work of journalist Jonny Steinberg, whose heightened levels of narrative self-awareness and preoccupation with the internal lives of both narrator and subject can be argued to be typical features of South African narrative journalism and, in particular, the genre's engagement with--and navigation of--representational crises.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; JOURNALISM &; literature; JOURNALISM; SOUTH African literature; VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE in literature; POSTCOLONIALISM in literature; POSTMODERNISM (Literature); STEINBERG, Jonny
- Publication
Literary Journalism Studies, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1944-897X
- Publication type
Article