Fiction | Settled
Jun 8, 2022
Settled is a short story concerned with the notions of value and extraction in the arts, and the unequal relationships of power this imposes. It was written as part of a collection of short stories that seeks, through the lens of fiction, to provide an alternative record and critique of the South African art world. The idea of the ‘borrow pit’ in the story is made in reference to South African theatre-maker Jemma Kahn’s 2018 play The Borrow Pit.
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The short story was published in Volume 91 of the pan-African quarterly journal The Thinker, a special edition edited by Ashraf Jamal and Sven Christian.
