By exploring the literary journalism of Rian Malan (My Traitor’s Heart), Antje Krog (Country of My Skull and Begging to Be Black), Jonny Steinberg (Midlands) and Kevin Bloom (Ways of Staying), I seek to reflect upon the ways in which these writers are able to use the uncertainties and contradictions inherent in this genre to reveal the complexities of identity formation and negotiation within contemporary South African society. They are very often writing at times of political and social flux, and by writing at the unstable boundaries of literature and journalism these authors not only mirror the volatility of their social setting but also endeavour to find new narrative forms through which to address the complexities of white South African identity. By working at the fault line of literature and journalism, Krog, Bloom, Malan and Steinberg are seeking those points of intersection and interpenetration that create narrative instability and fluidity, in order simultaneously to reveal the inherent anxiety and possibility of the “inbetween.” Finally, I suggest that the instability and liminality of “skin” offers a space in which white South African identities can become fluid rather than fixed, and in which whiteness can begin to move out from under the umbrella of its global sanctity and into “folded-togetherness” with its many “others”

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在断层线上书写白色：对南非文学新闻业的一些思考

通过探索 Rian Malan（我的叛徒之心）、Antje Krog（我的骷髅之国和乞求变黑）、Jonny Steinberg（米德兰兹）和 Kevin Bloom（留下来的方式）的文学新闻，我试图反思这些作家能够利用这种类型固有的不确定性和矛盾来揭示当代南非社会中身份形成和协商的复杂性。他们经常在政治和社会动荡的时期写作，通过在文学和新闻业的不稳定边界上写作，这些作者不仅反映了他们社会环境的波动，而且还努力寻找新的叙事形式来解决白人南非身份。通过在文学和新闻界的断层线上工作，克罗格、布鲁姆、马兰和斯坦伯格正在寻找那些创造叙事不稳定和流动性的交叉点和相互渗透点，以同时揭示“中间”的内在焦虑和可能性。最后，我认为“皮肤”的不稳定性和界限性提供了一个空间，在这个空间中，南非白人的身份可以变得流动而不是固定，在这个空间中，白人可以开始从其全球神圣的保护伞下移出并进入“折叠”。 -togetherness”及其许多“其他”