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Begging to Be Black
Contributor(s): Krog, Antjie (Author)
ISBN: 1770220704     ISBN-13: 9781770220706
Publisher: Struik Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $18.90  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: 968.092
LCCN: 2010365472
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 291 pages
 
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In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog's stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog's experiences as a research fellow in Berlin, far from the Africa that produced her.

Begging to Be Black is a book of journeys - moral, historical, philosophical and geographical. These form strands that Krog interweaves and sets in conversation with each other, as she explores questions of change and becoming, coherency and connectedness, before drawing them closer together as the book approaches its powerful end. Experimental and courageous, Begging to Be Black is a welcome addition to Krog's own oeuvre and to South African literary non-fiction

Contributor Bio(s): Krog, Antjie: - Antjie Krog, een van Suid-Afrika se toonaangewendste digters, het haar digdebuut gemaak terwyl sy nog op skool was. Sedertdien het sy elf bundels gepuliseer, waaronder twee met kinderverse: Mankepank en ander monsters en Voëls van anderste vere. Sy is die skrywer van die beroemde Country of My Skull, asook A Change of Tongue, wat in Afrikaans as 'n Ander tongval verskyn het, en Begging to Be Black. Sy het ook 'n novele, 'n drama en drie digbundels in Engels gepuliseer. Van haar werk is in Engels, Arabies, Frans, Italiaans, Nederlands, Serbies, Spaans, Sweeds en Duits vertaal. Naas die vier eredoktorate waarmee sy vereer is, is sy onder meer met die Eugène Marais-prys, die Raport-prys, die Hertzog-prys, die rau-prys, die Elisabeth Eybers-prys, die atkv-prys en 'n toekenning vir voortreflike vertaling van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vertalers-instituut bekroon. Sy en haar man, John Samuel, woon in Kaapstad waar sy buitengewone professor aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland is.