| dc.contributor.author | Krog, Antjie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-18T09:05:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-18T09:05:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Krog, A. (2018) To Write Liberty. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 30(1): 77-84. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2159-9130 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/3594 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2018.1439868 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017
is a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the
world and to refrain from appropriating the pain of the marginalised. Taking a cue from Isaiah
Berlin’s analysis of the two kinds of liberties: liberty to be free and liberty from interference
with freedom, an argument is made for the freedom of a writer to write what she wants.
This freedom is radically tempered in a reading of some novels by JM Coetzee. Here I
explore the quality of skill, anguish and powerlessness to which a writer has to submit
within the structure of her text. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2018.1439868 | |
| dc.subject | Krog | en_US |
| dc.subject | Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Liberty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political correctness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Coetzee | en_US |
| dc.title | To Write Liberty | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
