Country of my skull / Antjie Krog.

By:

Krog, Antjie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: U K : Vintage, [1998]Description: x, 453 p. ; 20 cm.; PbkISBN:

9780099289791

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

968.065 KRO

Contents:

Before the Commission. Ch. 1. They Never Wept, the Men of My Race. Ch. 2. None More Parted than Us -- First Hearings. Ch. 3. Stretched Thinner and Thinner Over Pitches of Grief. Ch. 4. The Narrative of Betrayal Has to Be Reinvented Every Time. Ch. 5. The Sound of the Second Narrative. Ch. 6. The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms. Ch. 7. Two Women: Let Us Hear It in Another Language. Ch. 8. Guilt Is on the Move with All Her Mantles -- Politics. Ch. 9. The Political Page Curls over Itself. Ch. 10. Reconciliation: The Lesser of Two Evils. Ch. 11. Amnesty: In Transit with the Ghosts. Ch. 12. The Political Tongue at Anchor -- Reactions. Ch. 13. Blood Rains in Every Latitude. Ch. 14. Letters on the Acoustics of Scars. Ch. 15. It Gets to All of Us : from Tutu to Mamasela. Ch. 16. Truth Is a Woman. Ch. 17. Then Burst the Mighty Heart -- Unwinding. Ch. 18. The Shepherd and the Landscape of My Bones. Ch. 19. A Tragedy of Errors. Ch. 20. Mother Faces the Nation. Ch. 21 Beloved Country of Grief and Grace.

Summary: Antjie Krog has worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From the legislative genesis of the Commission, through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, and the activities of apartheid's operatives, the appearance of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former president PW Botha's courthouse press conference, the Commission's meeting with the media on Robben Island early in 1998 - Antjie Krog leads us on an extraordinary odyssey. Country Of My Skull captures the complexity of the truth commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative which is harrowing, illuminating and provocative. Krog's powerful prose lures the reader actively and inventively through a mosaic of insights, impressions and secret themes. Taking us beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission - and beyond: into the very heart of what is means to be a South African today.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	968.065 KRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2599

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Before the Commission. Ch. 1. They Never Wept, the Men of My Race. Ch. 2. None More Parted than Us --
First Hearings. Ch. 3. Stretched Thinner and Thinner Over Pitches of Grief. Ch. 4. The Narrative of Betrayal Has to Be Reinvented Every Time. Ch. 5. The Sound of the Second Narrative. Ch. 6. The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms. Ch. 7. Two Women: Let Us Hear It in Another Language. Ch. 8. Guilt Is on the Move with All Her Mantles --
Politics. Ch. 9. The Political Page Curls over Itself. Ch. 10. Reconciliation: The Lesser of Two Evils. Ch. 11. Amnesty: In Transit with the Ghosts. Ch. 12. The Political Tongue at Anchor --
Reactions. Ch. 13. Blood Rains in Every Latitude. Ch. 14. Letters on the Acoustics of Scars. Ch. 15. It Gets to All of Us : from Tutu to Mamasela. Ch. 16. Truth Is a Woman. Ch. 17. Then Burst the Mighty Heart --
Unwinding. Ch. 18. The Shepherd and the Landscape of My Bones. Ch. 19. A Tragedy of Errors. Ch. 20. Mother Faces the Nation. Ch. 21 Beloved Country of Grief and Grace.

Antjie Krog has worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From the legislative genesis of the Commission, through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, and the activities of apartheid's operatives, the appearance of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former president PW Botha's courthouse press conference, the Commission's meeting with the media on Robben Island early in 1998 - Antjie Krog leads us on an extraordinary odyssey. Country Of My Skull captures the complexity of the truth commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative which is harrowing, illuminating and provocative. Krog's powerful prose lures the reader actively and inventively through a mosaic of insights, impressions and secret themes. Taking us beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission - and beyond: into the very heart of what is means to be a South African today.

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