Cracked vases and untidy seams: Narrative structure and closure in the truth and reconciliation commission and South African Fiction

Current Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 63-76

  Samuelson, Meg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 85005852163     PISSN: 1013929X     EISSN: 21599130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2003.9678159     Document Type: Article

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23. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Region, Nation and Identity Conference held at the University of Natal, Durban, in 2002. My thanks to the organisers and participants for providing an engaging space in which to develop these thoughts. During the writing of this paper I received financial assistance from the University of Cape Town as an A W Mellon Fellow. I gratefully acknowledge that support.