Interrogations of Guilt and Amnesia in Mike Nicol'sThe Ibis Tapestry, andWall of Daysby Alastair Bruce

Making and Unmaking ‘African Foreignness’: African Settings, African Migrants and the Migrant Detective in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction

“…Ken Barris, for instance, contends that '[t]he novel is structured along the lines of a forensic investigation that aims, like the TRC, to uncover hidden truths'. 39 He suggests that the novel not only subverts the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as Michael Titlestad and Mike Kissack argue in their article 'The Secularization of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission', but that Nicol also engages with white, and therewith his own, complicity in apartheid. 40 The narrative events taking place in the Saharan setting, in this vein, become an allegory of post-apartheid South Africa in these accounts, particularly in Sten Pultz Moslund's reading of the Malitia plot through a South African lens:…”