Description
About the Author
Antjie Krog is professor at the University of the Western Cape.
Reviews
Throughout Lady Anne there is a rugged, gripping quality to Krog's language, digging deep into the nature of South African life and her own self-challenging relationship to it.... There is a substance here, a regard, a responsibility, a creative response which is in keeping with the original nature of the volume when it was first published during the turmoil of the last decade of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s. This is an extraordinary opportunity to present a writer of tremendous significance to a wholly new realm of readers. -- Stephen Clingman
Lady Anne is far from being a collection narrowly fixed in two particular historical moments - eighteenth-century colonial life and late 1980s resistance to apartheid. Like all great poems its reach is wide and deep. In this masterly English translation it speaks to new circumstances, in particular renewed attacks by young South Africans on what they register as a still repressive colonial legacy. It also speaks to conditions of power in many other places, including the United States, where issues of belonging, identity, speech and silence, are alive and active. There too writers and thinkers are challenged to address the moral, intellectual and creative challenges these themes generate. Alert to the dangers of complicity and despite her view that it is impossible "to hone truth with the pen /to live an honourable life within so much privilege," Antjie Krog engages these difficult subjects with originality and power, in poetic language of great beauty, passion and complexity. -- Ingrid De Kok
Book Information
ISBN 9781611488159
Author Antjie Krog
Format Paperback
Page Count 126
Imprint Bucknell University Press
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Weight(grams) 177g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 155mm * 9mm