Experiments with Truth – Narrative Non–fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa: African Articulations

Hedley Twidle

Preface: Encountering non-fiction Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches Unusable Pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger Literatures of Betrayal: Collaboration, confession and collapse in post-TRC narrative In Search of Lost Archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory A Very Strange Relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing Some Claim to Intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination In Short, There Are Problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony Unknowable Communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country A New More Honest Code: Memoirs of the "born frees" and the futures of non-fiction Afterword: The extracurriculum Bibliography