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Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: a self-interrogation of privilege, complicity citizenship, and belonging

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159746 , vital:40339 , ISBN 978-0739192962
Description: Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats from social equity and justice that have characterized the late twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for a new era.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Global resonance, local amplification: Antjie Krog on a world stage

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159736 , vital:40338 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950903562468
Description: As a result of the publication of Country of my Skull, an extraordinary literary enactment of witness and confession, Antjie Krog has become internationally known as a writer profoundly engaged with the events and human drama uncovered by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her voice is read as that of an expert witness of trauma, forgiveness and the means by which the horrors of the past may be addressed. In seeking to understand how Krog came to be taken up internationally as a representative voice of the South African transition, I focus on a particular global–local nexus for an explanation. I theorise that dealing with the past via truth commissions, a global publishing context and the work of a local writer with a record of excellent literary output and political action enabled a fit which resulted in Krog coming to prominence on a world stage.
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Date Issued: 2010

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The Confessions and Professions of an Accidental Academic

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150908 , vital:39016
Description: [Introduction] A series of accidents brought me to this place today where I get to address those who’ve become an important part of my life about what my life’s work means and adds up to. Many people don’t get such an opportunity, but the academic community believes in the values of history and reflection, so such an opportunity is afforded to me, and I count myself fortunate (and a little bit terrified) to have it. Those accidents (which I will talk about a little more) have meant that I have had a whole career (as a journalist) before I became an academic and so I am a little older perhaps than most professors standing in the same spot. I am close-ish to the ending of this career and I intend to have another one (as a fully-fledged writer) before I finish altogether. What I want to talk about are thedeep preoccupations of my life which are: the personal and the political, talk and listening,and of course, writing.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Media and citizenship: between marginalisation and participation

- Garman, Anthea, Wasserman, Herman

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Wasserman, Herman
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158383 , vital:40179 , ISBN 9780796925565
Description: How central are the media to the functioning of democracy? Is democracy primarily about citizens using their vote? Does the expression of their voice necessarily empower citizens? Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practice their citizenship and experiences marginalization on a daily basis, notions like listening and belonging may be more useful ways of thinking about the role of the media. In this context, protest is taken seriously as a form of political expression and the media's role is foregrounded as actively seeking out the voices of those on the margins of society. Through a range of case studies, the contributors show how listening, both as a political concept and as a form of practice, has transformative and even radical potential for both emerging and established democracies.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Antjie Krog and the accumulation of ‘media meta‐capital’:

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2007
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159713 , vital:40336 , DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2007.9678272
Description: While Krog's significant body of work in poetry, prose and journalism is undoubtedly central in her trajectory towards international renown, in this essay I explore the dynamics of her “meteoric rise in status”. The news media's role in mediating Krog to the world for nearly 40 years becomes crucial to this investigation. I use a mix of media theory and field theory to illuminate the multi‐faceted and complex relationship Krog has had with the news media and I argue that her acquisition of ‘media meta‐capital’ has played a significant role in her attainment of a unique voice and speaking platform in a postapartheid, public domain in which few white voices, and especially Afrikaner ones, are being heard.
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Date Issued: 2007

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Alexandra Fuller of Southern Africa: a white woman writer goes west

- Garman, Anthea, Rennie, Gillian

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Rennie, Gillian
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159924 , vital:40356 , https://ialjs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/134-147-LJS_v7n1.pdf
Description: In terms of nationality, Alexandra Fuller is difficult to pigeonhole. She was born in England but from age two was brought up in Southern Africa (mostly Rhodesia). She married an American working in Zambia and then moved to Wyoming to raise a family. She has written three books about her family, their peripatetic life, and the violence of decolonizing Africa. Te success of these works has made her one of the few African female nonfction writers to gain an international audience. Fuller’s longform journalism has been published in Granta and the Guardian in the United Kingdom, and in the New Yorker, Harper’s, National Geographic, Byliner, and Vogue in the United States. Tis paper traces the arc of a writer transcending her continent to break into the competitive American magazine market, portraying the complex land from which she has come for a foreign audience.
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Date Issued: 2015

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Antjie Krog and the post-apartheid public sphere: Speaking poetry to power

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159913 , vital:40355 , ISBN 978-1869142933
Description: Antjie Krog has been known in Afrikaans literary circles and the media for decades because of her poetry and her strong political convictions. Often known simply as 'Antjie,' she is also affectionately called 'our beloved poet' and our 'Joan of Arc' by Afrikaans commentators. It was through her work on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an SABC radio journalist and her subsequent book, Country of My Skull, that Antjie Krog then became known to English-speakers in South Africa and across the world. Her work catapulted her particular brand of poetics and politics, honed over many years of her opposition to apartheid, into the South African public sphere at a time when the country was not only looking for a humane and just resolution after the apartheid era, but was also establishing itself as a new democracy.
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Date Issued: 2015

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Anger, Pain and the Body in the Public Sphere:

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158459 , vital:40188 , ISBN 9781776145898
Description: In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Digital disruption: some instagrams

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144558 , vital:38357 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC159516
Description: I'm going to shamelessly pinch someone else's language to think about the changes and challenges of this media moment we are living through and take the theme for the Mennel Media Exchange (MMX14), organised by Laurie Bley of Duke University and Patrick Conroy of eNCA and held in Johannesburg in July. “ Digital disruption" doesn't fallen into the neat pessimism or optimism so emblematic of our times but does say forcefully that we are all on uncertain ground and need to reconfigure our ways of doing and being in media making, media managing and in education.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Running with the jackals: Antjie Krog the journalist

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159813 , vital:40346 , ISBN 9781869142537
Description: Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness brings together critical responses to the fascinating life's work of one of South Africa's most prominent writers and public figures. As the writer of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission chronicle, Country of My Skull (1998), other works of creative non-fiction, Afrikaans poetry, translations, and journalism, Antjie Krog has, over a career spanning four decades, produced an important body of work informed by her no-holds-barred openness, acute self-awareness, and social engagement. As a public figure, she is both a dissident who provocatively challenges norms and a mediator between cultures. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the many facets of Antjie Krog's work. The book's essays focus on identity, race, gender, apartheid, trauma, and transformation. There is also a thought-provoking interview with Krog on translation. This book will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial literature, politics, South African literature, as well as media and translation studies.
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Date Issued: 2014

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