This article explores praise poems as biographical documents. Antjie Krog's poem "pryslied" ("praise poem"), written in reaction to Nelson Mandela's presidential inauguration, is compared to two Xhosa praise poems performed ...

AFRIKAANS : Verstedeliking is ’n verskynsel wat sowel Afrikaners as swart mense in die twintigste eeu in Suid-Afrika geaffekteer het. In sommige opsigte was die traumatiese effek van hierdie gebeure vergelykbaar vir die ...

This article analyses the role of ‘race’ in Antjie Krog’s non-fiction trilogy Country of My Skull (1998), A Change of Tongue (2003) and Begging to Be Black (2009). It explores her explicit use of terms such as ‘heart of ...

In this thesis Antjie Krog’s ‘transformation trilogy’ consisting of three nonfiction texts, Country of My Skull (1998), A Change of Tongue (2003) and Begging to Be Black (2009) is analysed with specific focus on conceptions ...

Deon Opperman’s latest published play, Kaburu (2008), can be said to have the identity of the Afrikaner, past and present, as a central theme. In this article, the topic of identity in the play is approached by making use ...

Antjie Krog and Tom Lanoye’s combined stage tour in Flanders, the Netherlands and South Africa in October/November 2006 was a continuation of earlier instances of collaboration between the two artists, and certainly ...

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies exist in which a thorough comparative study is undertaken between two or more South African ...