Your Best Story

S02 E04: Duppy Stories: Protecting Whose Integrity?

November 23, 2023 L.A. Wanliss Season 2 Episode 4
S02 E04: Duppy Stories: Protecting Whose Integrity?
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Your Best Story
S02 E04: Duppy Stories: Protecting Whose Integrity?
Nov 23, 2023 Season 2 Episode 4
L.A. Wanliss

“When writing creative non-fiction you often come up with duppy stories”. LA Wanliss speaks to two academic and writers of creative non-fiction, Opal Palmer Adisa and Maziki Thame. The Women are open and vulnerable as they  discuss the presence of writer’s guilt and censorship when writing about family and close communities, and question the protection of their integrity in the work. 
Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault. 

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“When writing creative non-fiction you often come up with duppy stories”. LA Wanliss speaks to two academic and writers of creative non-fiction, Opal Palmer Adisa and Maziki Thame. The Women are open and vulnerable as they  discuss the presence of writer’s guilt and censorship when writing about family and close communities, and question the protection of their integrity in the work. 
Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault. 

Support the Show.