- Title
- Antjie Krog and the accumulation of ‘media meta‐capital’:
- Creator
- Garman, Anthea
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159713
- Identifier
- vital:40336
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2007.9678272
- Description
- While Krog's significant body of work in poetry, prose and journalism is undoubtedly central in her trajectory towards international renown, in this essay I explore the dynamics of her “meteoric rise in status”. The news media's role in mediating Krog to the world for nearly 40 years becomes crucial to this investigation. I use a mix of media theory and field theory to illuminate the multi‐faceted and complex relationship Krog has had with the news media and I argue that her acquisition of ‘media meta‐capital’ has played a significant role in her attainment of a unique voice and speaking platform in a postapartheid, public domain in which few white voices, and especially Afrikaner ones, are being heard.
- Format
- 23 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Garman, A., 2007. Antjie Krog and the accumulation of ‘media meta‐capital’. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 19(2), pp.1-23, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa volume 19 number 2 1 23 June 2011 2159-9130
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