Losing the Plot Crime Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid Writing by De Kock L

ISBN: 9781868149643

Wits University Press, September 2016

276 pages, Paperback

If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was the ‘transition’ to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead the public sphere is overwhelmed with ways in which the plot appears to have been lost, resulting in the prominence of creative nonfiction.