The story explores the relationship between artistic integrity and government propaganda, and addresses competing approaches to literature; the boundary between reality and fiction is tested throughout.
In form and content, many of the South African pieces approach socialist propaganda.
"North Korea keeps the Stalin-era Soviet approach to propaganda," he told me this week.
"If we can help even one young person to have a more open, more critical mind to approach the propaganda they are presented with, if one person proactively becomes an active member of their community, we will feel that we have done our job".
Although accurate, this description misses the key element of the ideology that has dominated Russia since 2000: a populism founded on a nihilistic view of the truth, state propaganda and a kleptocratic approach to power.
Her caution, her wonkish calibration of the geopolitical fine points, her miscalculation of who would benefit from the "propaganda" calculus, reflect her approach to her campaign and to governing.
"I use images that have become our cultural heritage, that constitute memory of nations, serve as symbols or tools of propaganda and exemplify a specific approach to photography".
At the same time, the tone has changed from what used to be fairly blatant use of Chinese culture as state propaganda to a more sophisticated approach, Chinese and American museum directors say.
Supporters of the so-called Islamic State have released pictures of what they said were new gold dinars on social media, amid a propaganda drive by the group as it approaches its one-year anniversary.
Russia's approach to the so-called propaganda spread by the ARF mirrors its gay propaganda law, passed in 2013, ostensibly to protect children from the menace of "non-traditional sexual relationships".
