- Title
- Global resonance, local amplification: Antjie Krog on a world stage
- Creator
- Garman, Anthea
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159736
- Identifier
- vital:40338
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950903562468
- Description
- As a result of the publication of Country of my Skull, an extraordinary literary enactment of witness and confession, Antjie Krog has become internationally known as a writer profoundly engaged with the events and human drama uncovered by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her voice is read as that of an expert witness of trauma, forgiveness and the means by which the horrors of the past may be addressed. In seeking to understand how Krog came to be taken up internationally as a representative voice of the South African transition, I focus on a particular global–local nexus for an explanation. I theorise that dealing with the past via truth commissions, a global publishing context and the work of a local writer with a record of excellent literary output and political action enabled a fit which resulted in Krog coming to prominence on a world stage.
- Format
- 122 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Social Dynamics
- Relation
- Garman, A., 2010. Global resonance, local amplification: Antjie Krog on a world stage. Social Dynamics, 36(1), pp.187-200
- Relation
- Social Dynamics volume 36 number 1 187 200 March 2010 1940-7874
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