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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaIngrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of Questions” and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Ingrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of... [Michael Sharp’s chapter outlines the courageous work of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and focuses on a sequence of 12 poems entitled “A Room Full of Questions” in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things (2004). The poems emphasize not only the Commission’s “invisible mending of the heart” but also the rendering of certain ineradicable moments that are now part of the new republic’s cultural “dialect of record.” If South Africa were to remain “this stained” place, as de Kok has written, then the poet must continue to speak for those who fell into apartheid’s “web of infinite” sorrow.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaIngrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of Questions” and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Kalu, Kenneth; Falola, Toyin
Sharp, Michael
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa — Oct 9, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-96495-9
Pages
125 –143
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6_6
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Abstract

[Michael Sharp’s chapter outlines the courageous work of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and focuses on a sequence of 12 poems entitled “A Room Full of Questions” in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things (2004). The poems emphasize not only the Commission’s “invisible mending of the heart” but also the rendering of certain ineradicable moments that are now part of the new republic’s cultural “dialect of record.” If South Africa were to remain “this stained” place, as de Kok has written, then the poet must continue to speak for those who fell into apartheid’s “web of infinite” sorrow.]

Published: Oct 9, 2018

Keywords: Terrestrial Things; apartheidApartheid; South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC); South African Communist Party (SACP); Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)

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