고백문학과 정체성의 정치: 안끼 끄록의 『내 심장의 나라 Country of My Skull』와 『다른 억양으로 'n Ander Tongval』를 중심으로
Confessional narrative and Politics of identity: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and 'n Ander Tongval
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This study focuses on the way how the politics of identity unfolded in the confessional narratives of the South African writer Antjie Krog. In her texts, A Country of My Skull (1998) she witnesses the traumatic testimonies at the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) and expresses her painful feeling of guilt and co-responsibility, and produces an emotionally charged and passionately felt ethics of recognition. On the one hand she shows her strong identification with the Afrikaner-culture and the Afrikaans-language which are associated with numerous atrocities in the past. On the other hand, she tries to formulate a new identity of South Africa, and attempts to position her cultural and ethnic idenity within the new picture of South African society. Krog's search for a new identity in the nation-building continues in a practical way in 'n Ander Tongval (2005). This book is a representation of a painful and complex search for a new identity of a white Afrikaner and a Afrikaans-speaking in the postapartheid South Africa. The re-confirmation of her ethnic and cultural identities gives form to a strategic positioning of their own collective identity and a future agency for rehabilitating the collective self within the new South African community. Her confessional narratives say to people "I will take the responsibility. I will take responsibility for all the atrocities committed under the National Party's rule over the last fifty years.[...] I will ask forgiveness and I will pray. I will take the responsibility. I will take the blame' (Country of My Skull, 2002[1998], 98-99쪽). Now, the central concern is whether they can find a space in Africa as Afrikaner. It is important to notice that Krog published these confessional narratives as both a form of reconciliation and as a strategy of politics of identity in the drastic periods of revolution in South Africa.
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This study focuses on the way how the politics of identity unfolded in the confessional narratives of the South African writer Antjie Krog. In her texts, A Country of My Skull (1998) she witnesses the traumatic testimonies at the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) and expresses her painful feeling of guilt and co-responsibility, and produces an emotionally charged and passionately felt ethics of recognition. On the one hand she shows her strong identification with the Afrikaner-culture and the Afrikaans-language which are associated with numerous atrocities in the past. On the other hand, she tries to formulate a new identity of South Africa, and attempts to position her cultural and ethnic idenity within the new picture of South African society. Krog's search for a new identity in the nation-building continues in a practical way in 'n Ander Tongval (2005). This book is a representation of a painful and complex search for a new identity of a white Afrikaner and a Afrikaans-speaking in the postapartheid South Africa. The re-confirmation of her ethnic and cultural identities gives form to a strategic positioning of their own collective identity and a future agency for rehabilitating the collective self within the new South African community. Her confessional narratives say to people "I will take the responsibility. I will take responsibility for all the atrocities committed under the National Party's rule over the last fifty years.[...] I will ask forgiveness and I will pray. I will take the responsibility. I will take the blame' (Country of My Skull, 2002[1998], 98-99쪽). Now, the central concern is whether they can find a space in Africa as Afrikaner. It is important to notice that Krog published these confessional narratives as both a form of reconciliation and as a strategy of politics of identity in the drastic periods of revolution in South Africa.
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