This paper analyses the self-conscious narrative strategies in Mark Gevisser's Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014), strategies which draw attention to the act of writing as a way of both voicing and speaking back to his own memory. Lost and Found connects the concept of 'coming home' to the act of writing and the reconfiguration of the narrative self. It is about...

In Begging to Be Black, Krog grapples with the idea of the vulnerable body as a response to Njabulo S Ndebele's inaugural Steve Biko Memorial Lecture (delivered in 2000). She expresses her loyalty to literary non-fiction in somatic terms: she hopes that it allows her potentially to discover a "thinning of skin" that avoids the imaginative challenges of fiction. I s...