Confession and public life in post‐apartheid South Africa: A Foucauldian reading of Antjie Krog's country of my skull

Garman, Anthea

Title: Confession and public life in post‐apartheid South Africa: A Foucauldian reading of Antjie Krog's country of my skull
Creator: Garman, Anthea
Date Issued: 2006
Date: 2006
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159724
Identifier: vital:40337
Identifier: DOI: 10.1080/02564710608530406
Description: Truth commissions around the world have given the technique of confession a new public currency and political power. Many works of literature thematising these commissions have also adopted the technique of confession for literary purposes. In this paper I bring Foucault's understanding of the technique of confession, and his discourse on the role of public intellectuals in modernity, to bear upon an examination of Antjie Krog's literary reflection of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), entitled Country of My Skull (1998). I look at how this text, and Krog's subsequent public intellectual status as a witness of the TRC, perpetuate the technique of confession without problematising it in ways that Foucault's work would suggest is necessary.
Format: 23 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Literary Studies
Relation: Garman, A., 2006. Confession and public life in post‐apartheid South Africa: A Foucauldian reading of Antjie Krog's country of my skull. Journal of Literary Studies, 22(3-4), pp.322-344.
Relation: Journal of Literary Studies volume 22 number 3-4 322 344 July 2007 1753-5387
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