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.

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