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| Author | Antjie Krog |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | South Africa |
| Pages | 286 |
Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).[1] It is based on Krog's experience as a radio reporter, covering the Commission from 1996 to 1998 for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.[2] The book explores the successes and failures of the Commission, the effects of the proceedings on her personally, and the possibility of genuine reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Country of My Skull blends poetry, prose, reporting, and verbatim testimony from the Commission — one critic calls it "a hybrid work, written at the edges of reportage, memoir, and metafiction."[3] It was Krog's first work in English. She drafted it in Afrikaans and translated it for publication.[4] It was edited by Ivan Vladislavic.[5]
It was published in the United States by Times Books in 1999, as Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa. In 2004, the book was adapted into the film In My Country, directed by John Boorman and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche.
- ^ Harding, Jeremy (1999-05-30). "Picking Up the Pieces". New York Times. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
- ^ Renders, Luc (2006-06-01). "Antjie Krog: an unrelenting quest for wholeness". Dutch Crossing. 30 (1): 43–62. doi:10.1080/03096564.2006.11730870. ISSN 0309-6564. S2CID 163235502.
- ^ Sanders, Mark (2000). "Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after Apartheid". Modern Fiction Studies. 46 (1): 13–41. doi:10.1353/mfs.2000.0011. S2CID 146394494.
- ^ Devarenne, Nicole (2005-08-04). "Communicating with Agaat". London Review of Books. Vol. 27, no. 15. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
- ^ Warnes, Christopher (2000). "Interview with Ivan Vladislavic". Modern Fiction Studies. 46 (1): 273–281. doi:10.1353/mfs.2000.0012. S2CID 162327749.