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Lady Anne - A Chronicle in Verse (Paperback)
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Lady Anne - A Chronicle in Verse (Paperback)
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Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English
translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in
1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of
colonial history-the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of
Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty
hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of
a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an
independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left
diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences
in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous
peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this
remarkable heroine's life in South Africa, and intertwines it with
life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the
throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency.
Krog's powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the
present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience
that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still
turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where
the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the
center of civic life.
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