Making Space for New Voices: The Politics of Editing in South Africa

Abstract

This article looks at the dilemmas and challenges of editing in the very specific milieu of contemporary South Africa, where historically sidelined voices are just beginning
to find their literary presence, and the editing process often involves a certain amount
of enabling. The editor's role is to walk the delicate tension between the experiential
and expressive authenticity of these ‘emerging' voices, and the stringent demands
of established literary convention.

Current Writing Vol. 19 (1) 2007: pp. 153-159