..................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Who Speaks? Or: Who can Speak.............................................2 Krog the public figure......................................................................................4 Public intellectual activity as a focus of study.................................................15 Public intellectual activity in post-apartheid South Africa ..............................17 The questions that guide this study..................................................................25 Appendix A – Media coverage of plagiarism accusations against Krog .........223 Appendix B – Texts dealing with the debate on public intellectuals...............224 Appendix C – South African media debates about types of intellectuals........227 Chapter 2: Public Sphere and Public Intellectual, Field and Agent ....30 I. The Habermasian public sphere as the normative understanding............30 Redrawing the private-public boundary.......................................................34 The Others of the liberal, bourgeois, democratic public sphere ..................38 Bracketing the commercial ..........................................................................40 Public sphere as conversation writ large......................................................41 The emergence of mass subjectivity ............................................................45 Approaches to conceptualising public sphere today....................................50 II. The public intellectual as a distinctive persona in the public sphere ......52 The public intellectual, a lineage .................................................................52 Edward Said, the representation of an intellectual.......................................53 The public intellectual as trope ....................................................................55 The political economy of ‘public intellectual’.............................................57 Public intellectual as democratic proxy individual ......................................58 The market of sentiment and affect .............................................................61 Proxies of agency.........................................................................................63 The intellectual and power – Foucault’s warning........................................64 A more adequate conception of the public intellectual................................68 III. Field theory, a nuanced explication of agency and creativity ................69 Field .............................................................................................................70 The literary field ..........................................................................................74 The political field.........................................................................................76 The media field ............................................................................................77 Using field theory ........................................................................................82 IV. Self-fashioning: the writer and subjectivity .............................................83 Conclusion.......................................................................................................85 Chapter 3: Self: the Creation of Poet Subjectivity .....................................86 “Digter, Christen, Afrikaner”...........................................................................86 Telling an autobiographical story as a claiming of authority ..........................98 [Trajectory] Entry and emergence as a poet in the Afrikaans literary field ................................................................................................100 [Subjectivity] ‘The cartography of the self’; the production of distinction ...............................................................................................102 Conclusion.......................................................................................................108 Chapter 4: Self-Othering ...................................................................................110 [Trajectory] The attention of important political field consecrators.............113 1. Consecration by Kathrada......................................................................113 2. Consecration by the ANC in exile .........................................................114 3. Consecration by the comrades ...............................................................116 4. Achieving the literary heights – the Hertzog Prize ................................119 5. Krog’s increasing salience for the news media......................................123 [Subjectivity] Self-othering using Lady Anne Barnard as a guide ...............125 Anne Barnard ...............................................................................................128 Barnard the writer ........................................................................................131 Barnard, the Other in Africa ........................................................................136 Lady Anne: Krog’s interlocutor...................................................................139 Lady Anne: the text......................................................................................142 Krog the Other in South Africa....................................................................148 ‘Woman’ as Othering position.....................................................................151 Conclusion.......................................................................................................154 Appendix D: “Genadendal” by Antjie Krog....................................................229 Appendix E: “Tour into the Interior”, letter by Anne Barnard ........................231 Chapter Five: Second-Person Performances ..............................................156 [Trajectory] Into news journalism proper......................................................157 1. Afrikaans radio reporting.......................................................................157 2. Writing in Engish for the Mail&Guardian ............................................161 3. International non-fiction publishing ......................................................164 The authority to write................................................................................165 The reaction to Country of My Skull.........................................................167 The enabling global context ......................................................................171 1. “Truth” commissions world-wide..........................................................172 2. The rise of confession ............................................................................173 3. The “transnationalising” of the public sphere........................................176 4. The burgeoning market for “life-narrative” ...........................................177 [Subjectivity] The second-person performance .............................................179 The encounter with “amazing otherness”................................................179 The first-person, second-person transaction ...........................................180 1. Saying “I”, hearing “I”...........................................................................182 2. The beneficiary position ........................................................................184 3. The assertion of the body.......................................................................187 4. The assertion of a woman’s body as the bearer of truth ........................188 A new public for Antjie Krog ...................................................................190 Conclusion.......................................................................................................192 Appendix F: SABC Sound Archives on Antjie Samuel TRC reports .............233 Appendix G: Reviews of Country of My Skull ................................................245 Chapter Six: Authority and Authenticity in the New South Africa ......193 Authority..........................................................................................................193 Authenticity .....................................................................................................198 Conclusion.......................................................................................................203 Chapter Seven – Conclusion: Speaking Poetry to Power ........................208 The sources of Krog’s authority .....................................................................211 Krog’s distinctive work as a South African public intellectual .....................218 Appendix H: Blog posts on Antjie Krog..........................................................248 Bibliography .............................................................................................................262 Antjie Krog Bibliography........................................................................................296 Media Archive on Antjie Krog ...............................................................................300 South African News Media Archive on Intellectuals............................................334 Antjie Krog Biography ............................................................................................343 Antjie Krog Awards and Accolades .......................................................................359 Antjie Krog in the SABC Sound Archives.............................................................360 Note on the organisation of the thesis supporting documents In order to be able to consult all the texts on a particular issue at once I have gathered the following into appendices, references to which appear in the footnotes of the thesis: • Me

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The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of ‘Woman’: J M Coetzee and Lewis Nkosi

Antjie Krog, self and society: the making and mediation of a public intellectual in South Africa

In her now famous essay, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims ‘if, in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern femal...

Displacing the Voice: South African Feminism and JM Coetzee's Female Narrators

Appendix: South Africa:

The Outsider Figure in Lewis Nkosi's novels, Mating Birds (1986) and Underground People (2002). This thesis will examine the trope of the outsider figure in Lewis Nkosi's two novels, Mating Birds (1986) and Underground People (2002). Since both novels are set in South Africa and are informed by the political context of this country at particular junctures, the thesis will focus on the. effects of apartheid on the two black protagonists central characters yet 'outsider figures' in these novels. This thesis will argue that Lewis Nkosi's own position as an 'outsider figure' in South African letters plays an important function in his writing. In support of this point, I will therefore also refer to his non fictional books, Home and Exile and Other Selections (1965) and Tasks and Masks: themes and styles of African Literature (1981). These books are particularly important because they document Nkosi's comments on South African literature and his position as the 'outsider' acerbic critic. Nkosi can be seen as an outsider figure being a young, black South African living in an apartheid South Africa, and also, later, as a writer in exile.

The outsider figure in Lewis Nkosi's Mating birds and Underground People.

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Acts of Writing and Questions of Power: From Daniel Defoe to J.M. Coetzee

Mapmakers: Writing in a state of siege

A Vision of Order : A Study of Black South African Literature in English (1914-1980)

A Land Apart: A South African Reader

Summary It is argued in this paper that Coetzee's notion of narrativity necessitates an analysis of the interarticulation between contemporary theoretical discourses and narrative practice. Since calculated construction seems to inform his re‐writing and re‐contextualization of romantic tales of adventure, Genette's structuralist model is used as a framework for tracing Coetzee's unique exploitation of postmodernist narrative strategies via the segmentation of his text into four different parts.

Postmodernist narrative strategies in Foe

Summary This paper is a condensed version of the final chapter of The Novels of J.M. Coetzee: Lacanian Allegories. It was to have been presented at the seminar on Foe in March 1988, prior to the publication of the book in July 1988. It offers a reading of the novel, Foe, as allegory, with the figure of Susan Barton representing certain positions in feminist discourse, Cruso representing postcolonial discourse from the position of the colonizer, and Friday's muteness representing the impossibility of a pure, original discourse on the part of the colonized. Feminist, postcolonial and postmodern discourses have in common the problem of speaking as Other, of representing the self as Other to various dominant discourses. In Foe Coetzee would appear to borrow strategies for figuring radical Otherness from both feminist and postcolonial discourse, while exploring the contradictions inherent in these strategies. Postmodernism offers strategies of intervention and evasion necessary to white South African writers, ...