'I, me, me, mine!': autobiographical fiction and the 'I'

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Title:	'I, me, me, mine!': autobiographical fiction and the 'I'
Author:	Krog, Antjie
Year:	2005
Periodical:	The English Academy Review
Volume:	22
Pages:	100-107
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	literature writers autobiography
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/10131750485310111
Abstract:	In this essay, South African writer Antjie Krog explains how and why, in their writing, where initially South African authors used facts to enable their fiction to arrive at the truth, they now use fiction, or more accurately fictional elements, to enable their facts to arrive at the truth. The new types of conflicts, dilemmas and predicaments of the postmodern world can no longer be emplotted within the traditional literary genres. Writers are slowly working towards a new form - as yet without a name. Many South African writers are bordering on the borders of fact and fiction. Krog concludes with some theoretical explanations of autobiographical narrative. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]