Antjie Krog

Description:

Remembering to forget : testimony, collective memory and the genesis of the 'new' South African nation in Country of My Skull -- The ethics of infidelity in Country of My Skull -- Country of My Skull, the transmission of testimony, and the democratisation of pedagogy -- Antjie Krog and the accumulation of 'media meta-capital' -- 'I have a body, therefore I am' : grotesque, monstrous and abject bodies in Antjie Krog's poetry -- The mother as pre-text : (auto)biographical writing in Antjie Krog's A Change of Tongue -- The ambiguity of the erotic : Antjie Krog's Down To My Last Skin -- Running with the jackals : Antjie Krog the journalist -- 'Now strangers walk in that place' : Antjie Krog, modernity and the makking of //Kabbo's story -- Writing the Medea myth in a new context : Tom Lanoye, Antjie Krog and Mamma Medea / Andries Visagie -- The splendour and misery of translation : interview with Antjie Krog -- 'Inhabiting' the translator's habitus : Antjie Krog as translator -- A question of ethics in There Was a Goat : Investigating the Truth Commission testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  African poetry, history and criticism

People: Antjie Krog