Abstract
ABSTRACT Using as a point of departure Alexander Kluge's “telling tales” of “courses of life” caught in the counter-currents of national histories, this review article examines the narrative and analytic treatment of South Africa's unlovely past, its unruly present and its aspirations to future transformation. The genre of “telling tales” (rather than the narrowly academic translation “case histories”) that are no longer just experience, nor yet quite concept allow, in the work of Ari Sitas, Ashraf Jamal and Rayda Becker and other contributors to the Democracy X exhibition and commemorative book, for critical as well as celebratory examinations often years of democratic transformation alongside uneven development and unfinished business.
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