The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
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The activist and writer has been erased from South Africa’s history - but new academic work seeks to restore his voice.
According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.
In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.
