Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Global Anglophone PoetryRecomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok

Global Anglophone Poetry: Recomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid... [In her 1998 essay, “Cracked Heirlooms: Memory on Exhibition,” Ingrid de Kok (b. 1951) focuses on the vexed problem of collective mourning and memorialization in the aftermath of apartheid and acceleration of globalization in contemporary South Africa. “There is a strong impulse in the country,” she writes, “supported and sustained by the media, for a grand concluding narrative, which will accompany entry into the globalized economy and international interaction with the world. […] This impulse has the potential to produce newly energetic registers, but equally it has the potential for amnesia” (61). As a strategic interruption to liberal discourses promoting healthy recovery through nation building and integrating South Africa into the global economy, de Kok proceeds instead to defend what she calls “the elegiac imperative” of artistic remembrances to apartheid. She interprets, for instance, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings through the lens of ritual, which, despite their failure to provide national catharsis, at least allows “contradictory voices to be heard.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Global Anglophone PoetryRecomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok

Download PDF
33 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/global-anglophone-poetry-recomposing-south-africa-cosmopolitanism-and-C5E4zvsuCe
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-56183-4
Pages
87 –120
DOI
10.1057/9781137499615_4
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[In her 1998 essay, “Cracked Heirlooms: Memory on Exhibition,” Ingrid de Kok (b. 1951) focuses on the vexed problem of collective mourning and memorialization in the aftermath of apartheid and acceleration of globalization in contemporary South Africa. “There is a strong impulse in the country,” she writes, “supported and sustained by the media, for a grand concluding narrative, which will accompany entry into the globalized economy and international interaction with the world. […] This impulse has the potential to produce newly energetic registers, but equally it has the potential for amnesia” (61). As a strategic interruption to liberal discourses promoting healthy recovery through nation building and integrating South Africa into the global economy, de Kok proceeds instead to defend what she calls “the elegiac imperative” of artistic remembrances to apartheid. She interprets, for instance, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings through the lens of ritual, which, despite their failure to provide national catharsis, at least allows “contradictory voices to be heard.”]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Cultural Capital; Political Violence; African National Congress; South African Tourist; Poetic Tradition

There are no references for this article.