Antjie Krog and the Autobiography of Postcolonial Becoming

Rodrigues, Elizabeth

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“…There Was This Goat (Krog, Mpolweni, and Ratele 2009), a co-written publication, in which Krog, linguist Nosisi Mpolweni, and psychologist Kopano Ratele try to understand the testimony of apartheid victim Mrs Konile, adds complexity to the structure of narrative perspectives and layers of truth in Country of My Skull. For insightful readings of these texts, see Rodrigues (2014), Young (2012), and Siméus (2018).…”

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Postcolonial criticism and cognitive literary studies: A new formalist approach to Antjie Krog’sCountry of My Skull

Effe

2020

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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This article argues that it is productive to combine cognitive literary studies and postcolonial criticism, and that this constitutes a new formalist approach. Drawing on insights from cognitive science, it describes how Antjie Krog's 1998 book Country of My Skull facilitates processes of empathetic engagement and identification. It proposes that postcolonial writing, because it is often particularly experimental, is a crucial area of focus for cognitive literary studies, inviting elaboration of existing models about the phenomenology of reading. Moreover, the article argues that attention to the way narrative strategies are linked to cognitive processes allows us to form scientifically grounded and contextually situated hypotheses about how postcolonial texts function as agents in their sociohistorical contexts, and to show how their formal, aesthetic dimension is crucial for their ethical, critical, and political force.

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Postcolonial criticism and cognitive literary studies: A new formalist approach to Antjie Krog’sCountry of My Skull

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2020

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The National Question in Antjie Krog’s “Transformation Trilogy”*

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Jacomien²

2017

Journal of Literary Studies

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This article explores the claim that the South African writer Antjie Krog is in essence asking the National Question in what I have termed her "transformation trilogy": Country of My Skull (1998); A Change of Tongue (2003); and Begging to Be Black (2009). In writing about issues like "race", identity and belonging in these texts, Krog is asking, "[t]o whom does the South African nation belong?"a question that was central to debates about the National Question by liberation movements during apartheid. Although the "new" South Africa arguably is very different from the new "nation" that had been imagined, the National Question remains of importance. A postcolonial reading of the transformation trilogy encourages a focus on the National Question and the factors that complicate it. Existing studies about the theme of nationhood in Krog"s work do not draw any connections with older discourses on nation and nationalism in South Africa. Opsomming Hierdie artikel ondersoek die stelling dat Antjie Krog in wese besig is met die Nasionale Vraagstuk in haar "transformasie-trilogie": Country of My Skull (1998); A Change of Tongue (2003); en Begging to Be Black (2009). In haar verkenning van kwessies soos "ras", identiteit en om te behoort in dié tekste, is Krog besig om te vra, "aan wie behoort die Suid-Afrikaanse nasie?"-"n vraag wat sentraal gestaan het tot beredenering oor die Nasionale Vraagstuk deur bevrydingsorganisasies tydens apartheid. Hoewel die situasie in die "nuwe" Suid-Afrika stellig baie anders daar uitsien as hoe die nuwe "nasie" verbeel is, is die Nasionale Vraagstuk van blywende belang. "n Postkoloniale benadering tot die transformasie-trilogie moedig "n ondersoek na die Nasionale Vraagstuk aan, asook die faktore wat dit kompliseer. Bestaande studies oor die tema van nasieskap in die tekste van die trilogie slaan nie "n verband tussen Krog se werk en ouer diskoerse oor nasie en nasionalisme in Suid-Afrika nie.

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White Guilt: Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black and the Confessional Uncanny

Pujolràs-Noguer

2023

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Antjie Krog and the Autobiography of Postcolonial Becoming

Cited by 3 publications

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Postcolonial criticism and cognitive literary studies: A new formalist approach to Antjie Krog’sCountry of My Skull

Postcolonial criticism and cognitive literary studies: A new formalist approach to Antjie Krog’sCountry of My Skull

The National Question in Antjie Krog’s “Transformation Trilogy”*

White Guilt: Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black and the Confessional Uncanny

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