Antjie Krog
Biographic Data
| ID | 108199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antjie Krog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antjie |
| FAMILY NAME | Krog |
| SIGNATURE | KROG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1145-0886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Literature and Human Rights: Interview with Antjie Krog
The Voices Who Live in Us
My mother writes ... One morning a man who owed my husband a substantial amount of money, pitched up in a rattling, worn-out bakkie. ‘My husband is not here,’ I said. ‘No, it’s okay, Antie, I just brought the uncle a sirpraais.’ And he took some scaffolding down and a white wooden box. ‘Doesn’t she look beautiful, Antie?’ ‘Are there bees in it?’ I ask carefully. ‘Tjok and blok, my antie, tjok and blok. You see, this hive will create three, four o…
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)
The epic poem about the Soweto uprising, “Laboraro le lesoleso”, written in Sepedi (Northern Sotho) by H. M. L. Lentsoane has only recently been translated into English by Biki Lepota as “Black Wednesday” and published in the anthology Stitching a whirlwind (2018). In this article I suggest that, by discarding English, some crucial shifts from the bulk of protest poetry written in English must have taken place. Lentsoane wants to speak directly t…
The Gwarrie Call that they Recognise”: An Analysis of the Translated Sesotho Poem “ Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914” (War against Germany 1914) by BM Khaketla (1913–2001)
This essay looks at a recently translated poem, “Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914”, written by BM Khaketla, as a lens through which to approach the feelings and attitudes of people from Lesotho towards the world wars. A poem is sometimes described as a gathering of spoken or written words, arranged in such a way that it evokes an intense imaginative alertness around an issue, an emotion or an experience. Investigations into the participation of black South …
Participants
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To Write Liberty
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017 \nis a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the \nworld and to refrain from appropriating the pain of the marginalised. Taking a cue from Isaiah \nBerlin’s analysis of the two kinds of liberties: liberty to be free and liberty from interference \nwith freedom, an argument is made for the freedom of a writer…
Mqhayi's chapter and verse: Kees van die Kalahari becoming u-Adonisi wasentlango
Xhosa’s best and most well-known imbongi and poet, S. E. K. Mqhayi, once translated an Afrikaans book Kees van die Kalahari into Xhosa—a story about the trials and tribulations of a leader baboon and his tribe. The Xhosa translation had been prescribed for generations of pupils and became one of the language’s most well-known texts. As part of a larger project which will compare the two texts in their totality, this essay is a preliminary exercis…
Die verkleurmannetjie(s) op Shaka: ’N Vergelyking tussen D. J. Opperman en Thomas Mofolo
For the purpose of the D. J. Opperman memorial lecture at Stellenbosch the writer took one of this poet’s most well-known credos who maintained under the influence of Keats that the poet should be ‘colourless’, i.e. without any agenda in order to take on the colour of that which or whom is being imagined. Both Opperman and the Basotho writer Thomas Mofolo imagined Shaka and explore a key moment in both these works where the imagined Shaka is judg…
A Sequence
Re-animating the works of Thomas Mofolo by engaging with the original Sesotho texts
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
A case for sheer compulsive and imaginative depth
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha’s “Architecture of the New”
The central argument of this article is that within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many scholars have insufficiently applied the concept of an indigenous African worldview in their analysis of the TRC’s work, leading them at times to describe the process as coerced, contradictory, and politically manipulated. Using the different stages of my research as well as the different texts that “lit up” e…
The Young Wind Once Was a Man’
Twenty years ago, the democratic vocabulary of tolerance and forgiveness was powerfully introduced to South Africans, especially by President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Both their words and actions were later broadened during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. However, what remains neglected in studies around the transition is what the underpinnings of the words by these two gentlemen were. This article make…
As I was Saying in Berlin
This conversation, in an earlier version, opened the ‘Framing Lives’ conference held in July 2012 at the Australian National University in Canberra. Here the writer and academic, Antjie Krog, and the philosopher and academic, Paul Patton, continue the conversations they started in Berlin in 2007 (these were published in Krog's non-fiction text, Begging to Be Black, 2009). In this reprised dialogue, Krog and Patton reflect both on the Berlin conve…
Creative Non-Fiction: A Conversation
Creative non-fiction has become in the sense 'the genre'; of South African writing: writing which makes its meanings at the unstable fault line of the literary and journalistic, the imaginative and the reportorial. Duncan Brown and Antjie Krog engage in a dialogue about the possibilities of the genre of creative non-fiction in South Africa, in particular for negotiating/narrating the complexities of post-apartheid identities. The discussion also …
Performing Xenophobia: A Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen
(2009). Performing Xenophobia: a Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 207-220
‘…If It Means He Gets His Humanity Back…’: The Worldview Underpinning the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Despite the fact that the process of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was open and public, there were virtually no calls for revenge, very few displays of anger and several incidences of reconciliation. Many scholars linked this ‘unusual’ behaviour, or the absence of explicit vengeance and revenge, to Christianity. Some well-respected TRC analysts suggested that victims were intimidated and pressurised into forgiveness …
‘This thing called reconciliation…‘ forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African Ruth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous world view, played a role in the process. This paper Ries to show that despite these references, important analysts of the RC (as well as many South Africans) had insufficiently accounted for this worldview in their critical readings of the Commission’s work and therefore found aspects of the process …
My heart is on my tongue: The untranslated self in a translated world
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the first body to provide translation in all the languages of the country, setting people free from groping around with distorted tongues, unable to see, talk or hear one another ... After three centuries of silence South Africans could daily hear the black voice talking and being translated; for the first time white South Africans could hear and listen. Through translation we could …
Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, translation and culture in the testimony of one person before the South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons during an incident that became known as the Gugulethu Seven. One of them was Mrs Notrose Nobomvu Konile. Of the four mothers she testified last and presented a testimony that seemed largely incoherent with very little detail about her son. Usi…
The cook, the stew and the taster: Writing from Inside, Editing from Outside
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
A Change of Tongue
In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are at least on the surface so vastly different
Women's Voices: African Poetry in Motion
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Creative Non-Fiction: A Conversation
Creative non-fiction has become in the sense 'the genre'; of South African writing: writing which makes its meanings at the unstable fault line of the literary and journalistic, the imaginative and the reportorial. Duncan Brown and Antjie Krog engage in a dialogue about the possibilities of the genre of creative non-fiction in South Africa, in particular for negotiating/narrating the complexities of post-apartheid identities. The discussion also …
My heart is on my tongue: The untranslated self in a translated world
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the first body to provide translation in all the languages of the country, setting people free from groping around with distorted tongues, unable to see, talk or hear one another ... After three centuries of silence South Africans could daily hear the black voice talking and being translated; for the first time white South Africans could hear and listen. Through translation we could …
Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha’s “Architecture of the New”
The central argument of this article is that within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many scholars have insufficiently applied the concept of an indigenous African worldview in their analysis of the TRC’s work, leading them at times to describe the process as coerced, contradictory, and politically manipulated. Using the different stages of my research as well as the different texts that “lit up” e…
The cook, the stew and the taster: Writing from Inside, Editing from Outside
Country of My Skull
Truth, Reconciliation, and Amnesty in South Africa
A ndré du T oit
Women's Voices: African Poetry in Motion
Down to My Last Skin
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
A Change of Tongue
In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are at least on the surface so vastly different
The cook, the stew and the taster: Writing from Inside, Editing from Outside
Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, translation and culture in the testimony of one person before the South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons during an incident that became known as the Gugulethu Seven. One of them was Mrs Notrose Nobomvu Konile. Of the four mothers she testified last and presented a testimony that seemed largely incoherent with very little detail about her son. Usi…
‘…If It Means He Gets His Humanity Back…’: The Worldview Underpinning the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Despite the fact that the process of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was open and public, there were virtually no calls for revenge, very few displays of anger and several incidences of reconciliation. Many scholars linked this ‘unusual’ behaviour, or the absence of explicit vengeance and revenge, to Christianity. Some well-respected TRC analysts suggested that victims were intimidated and pressurised into forgiveness …
‘This thing called reconciliation…‘ forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African Ruth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous world view, played a role in the process. This paper Ries to show that despite these references, important analysts of the RC (as well as many South Africans) had insufficiently accounted for this worldview in their critical readings of the Commission’s work and therefore found aspects of the process …
My heart is on my tongue: The untranslated self in a translated world
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the first body to provide translation in all the languages of the country, setting people free from groping around with distorted tongues, unable to see, talk or hear one another ... After three centuries of silence South Africans could daily hear the black voice talking and being translated; for the first time white South Africans could hear and listen. Through translation we could …
Performing Xenophobia: A Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen
(2009). Performing Xenophobia: a Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 207-220
Creative Non-Fiction: A Conversation
Creative non-fiction has become in the sense 'the genre'; of South African writing: writing which makes its meanings at the unstable fault line of the literary and journalistic, the imaginative and the reportorial. Duncan Brown and Antjie Krog engage in a dialogue about the possibilities of the genre of creative non-fiction in South Africa, in particular for negotiating/narrating the complexities of post-apartheid identities. The discussion also …
The Young Wind Once Was a Man’
Twenty years ago, the democratic vocabulary of tolerance and forgiveness was powerfully introduced to South Africans, especially by President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Both their words and actions were later broadened during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. However, what remains neglected in studies around the transition is what the underpinnings of the words by these two gentlemen were. This article make…
As I was Saying in Berlin
This conversation, in an earlier version, opened the ‘Framing Lives’ conference held in July 2012 at the Australian National University in Canberra. Here the writer and academic, Antjie Krog, and the philosopher and academic, Paul Patton, continue the conversations they started in Berlin in 2007 (these were published in Krog's non-fiction text, Begging to Be Black, 2009). In this reprised dialogue, Krog and Patton reflect both on the Berlin conve…
Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha’s “Architecture of the New”
The central argument of this article is that within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many scholars have insufficiently applied the concept of an indigenous African worldview in their analysis of the TRC’s work, leading them at times to describe the process as coerced, contradictory, and politically manipulated. Using the different stages of my research as well as the different texts that “lit up” e…
A Sequence
Re-animating the works of Thomas Mofolo by engaging with the original Sesotho texts
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
A case for sheer compulsive and imaginative depth
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Mqhayi's chapter and verse: Kees van die Kalahari becoming u-Adonisi wasentlango
Xhosa’s best and most well-known imbongi and poet, S. E. K. Mqhayi, once translated an Afrikaans book Kees van die Kalahari into Xhosa—a story about the trials and tribulations of a leader baboon and his tribe. The Xhosa translation had been prescribed for generations of pupils and became one of the language’s most well-known texts. As part of a larger project which will compare the two texts in their totality, this essay is a preliminary exercis…
Die verkleurmannetjie(s) op Shaka: ’N Vergelyking tussen D. J. Opperman en Thomas Mofolo
For the purpose of the D. J. Opperman memorial lecture at Stellenbosch the writer took one of this poet’s most well-known credos who maintained under the influence of Keats that the poet should be ‘colourless’, i.e. without any agenda in order to take on the colour of that which or whom is being imagined. Both Opperman and the Basotho writer Thomas Mofolo imagined Shaka and explore a key moment in both these works where the imagined Shaka is judg…
To Write Liberty
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017 \nis a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the \nworld and to refrain from appropriating the pain of the marginalised. Taking a cue from Isaiah \nBerlin’s analysis of the two kinds of liberties: liberty to be free and liberty from interference \nwith freedom, an argument is made for the freedom of a writer…
Participants
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