“There is the Black Man’s Story and the White Man’s Story”: Narratives of Self and the Valence of “Stories” in Postapartheid Culture

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  • Leon de Kock University of Stellenbosch

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Leon de Kock, University of Stellenbosch

Leon de Kock is Professor Emeritus in English Studies at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality, and Fiction in Postapartheid Writing (Wits University Press, 2016), over 60 articles in peer-review publications, three volumes of poetry, a novel, and several works of translation from Afrikaans into English (among them Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf). De Kock has received numerous awards for his criticism, poetry, and literary translation.

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2016-09-01

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de Kock, Leon. 2016. ““There Is the Black Man’s Story and the White Man’s Story”: Narratives of Self and the Valence of ‘Stories’ in Postapartheid Culture”. Journal of Literary Studies 32 (3):36-58. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/11986.

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Vol. 32 No. 3 (2016): Memory, Heritage and the Politics of Transformation: The Place of “Colonial” Texts in Post-2000 South Africa and Zimbabwe

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