The result of her editing is a peculiar blend of documentation and fiction, written in a brilliantly vivid, uninhibited style.
These scholars saw African fiction as a narrative documentation of African life that opened up access to the beliefs and values of African societies.
The project is a labyrinthine joyride through Nance's consciousness, which he unfolds through a collage-like blend of animation (in a wide range of styles), live-action footage, archival personal images, and overlapping and echoing commentaries as well as a blend of fiction and nonfiction, of documentation and imagination, of memory and immediate experience.
Among the most unequivocal sections of the judgment were the following: Any organisation... resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits, we think, a degree of scepticism.
The judges were scathing about Uber's arguments, however, accusing the firm of "resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology" and even quoting Hamlet to suggest that the group's UK boss was protesting too much about its position.
Their approach to factual documentation and to the reading of fiction, both, require a view of the universe that I just can't accept.
It goes on to say it was struck by "the remarkable lengths" to which Uber has gone to try to compel agreement with its own definition of its company and the legal relationships between the various parties involved — describing it as "resorting in its documentations to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology" to try to advance its arguments.
Here is documentation as rich and strange as the fictions of Nicola Barker (who has done her bit for the same territory).
Hardwick goes on to refer to biography as "consistent fiction," and laments the difficulties of disproving it: Our power of documentation has a monstrous life of its own, a greater vivacity than any lived existence.
This brilliant work of intellectual autobiography is a documentation of, and a substitute for, half a decade of fiction that Mailer didn't write.
