Overview
Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness brings together critical responses to the fascinating life’s work of one of South Africa’s most prominent writers and public figures. The writer of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission chronicle, Country of My Skull (1998), and other works of creative non-fiction, Afrikaans poetry, translations and journalism, Krog has, over a career spanning four decades, produced an important body of work informed by her no-holds-barred openness, acute self-awareness and social engagement. As a public figure, she is both a dissident who provocatively challenges norms, and a mediator between cultures. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the many facets of Krog’s work. Essays focus on identity, race, gender, apartheid, trauma and transformation. There is also a thought-provoking interview with Krog on translation. This book will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial literature and politics, South African literature, as well as media and translation studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Judith Lütge Coullie ,
Andries Visagie
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Imprint: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.514kg
ISBN: 9781869142537
ISBN 10: 1869142535
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 April 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[A] welcome addition to the growing body of Krog scholarship. Essays are well researched and presented [a] some open up new and fascinating areas, others highlight previously neglected aspects in her oeuvre. u Gunther Pakendorf, University of Cape Town
'[A] welcome addition to the growing body of Krog scholarship. Essays are well researched and presented [...] some open up new and fascinating areas, others highlight previously neglected aspects in her oeuvre.' - Gunther Pakendorf, University of Cape Town.
[A] welcome addition to the growing body of Krog scholarship. Essays are well researched and presented [...] some open up new and fascinating areas, others highlight previously neglected aspects in her oeuvre. - Gunther Pakendorf, University of Cape Town
[A] welcome addition to the growing body of Krog scholarship. Essays are well researched and presented […] some open up new and fascinating areas, others highlight previously neglected aspects in her oeuvre. — Gunther Pakendorf, University of Cape Town
Author Information
Judith Lütge Coullie is Senior Research Associate, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Publications include The Closest of Strangers (Wits University Press), a.k.a. BreytenBreytenbach (Rodopi), Campbell in Context (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Selves in Question (University of Hawai’i Press). Andries Visagie is a Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Pretoria.
