Créopolis: Post-Apartheid and Creative-Critical Literary Testimony

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South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission created, for André Brink, a 'spectrum of possibilities'for writing about Apartheid's on-going legacy (1998). What possibilities are there for Indian-South-Africans in diaspora, writing three decades after Apartheid? My practice-led PhD will produce a novel -Créopolis - to explore Post-Apartheid traumas across different generations and scales, from world-historical to personal. Créopolis focuses on a tri-generational London-based family and juxtaposes oldergeneration's memories of Apartheid with challenges faced by a graduate student in the wake of Brexit. Itcaptures unique transnational experiences of a twice-displaced racialised community. I useinterdisciplinary research, allowing critical discourse to inform creative narrative. I work with: Apartheid-era memoirs, field interviews, trauma and affect theories, phenomenologies of touch (haptics), humanrights, race politics, and archival records of Indian activists in South Africa.