Abstract Krog's Begging to Be Black is an attempt to articulate whiteness in postapartheid
South Africa. This article contends that Krog's desire for blackness is modulated by her …

This article argues that it is productive to combine cognitive literary studies and postcolonial
criticism, and that this constitutes a new formalist approach. Drawing on insights from …

This article explores the claim that the South African writer Antjie Krog is in essence asking
the National Question in what I have termed her “transformation trilogy”: Country of My Skull …

This study investigates the concept of interconnectedness or 'interconncectedeness-towards-
wholeness' and the functioning thereof in Antjie Krog's poetry volume Mede-wete (2014) …

This article investigates two texts by Antjie Krog with intertextual references to German
music, specifically a song by Schubert and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. By using affect …

Abstract From Aristotle and Epicurus in Ancient Greece to Kant's speculations on the pursuit
of happiness and Jeremy Bentham's and John Stuart Mill's utilitarian principles, the notion of …