- Title
- Antjie Krog and the post-apartheid public sphere: Speaking poetry to power
- Creator
- Garman, Anthea
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159913
- Identifier
- vital:40355
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1869142933
- Description
- Antjie Krog has been known in Afrikaans literary circles and the media for decades because of her poetry and her strong political convictions. Often known simply as 'Antjie,' she is also affectionately called 'our beloved poet' and our 'Joan of Arc' by Afrikaans commentators. It was through her work on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an SABC radio journalist and her subsequent book, Country of My Skull, that Antjie Krog then became known to English-speakers in South Africa and across the world. Her work catapulted her particular brand of poetics and politics, honed over many years of her opposition to apartheid, into the South African public sphere at a time when the country was not only looking for a humane and just resolution after the apartheid era, but was also establishing itself as a new democracy.
- Format
- 220 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Garman, A., 2015. Antjie Krog and the post-apartheid public sphere: Speaking poetry to power. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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