Bodily disintegration and successful ageing in Body Bereft by Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog’s Body Bereft (2006) details both the bodily changes brought about by older age and the ways in which these changes fracture a person’s previously-stable sense of self. This article reads Krog’s depiction of the ageing body in a small selection of poems from this collection in relation...

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Main Author: Antoinette Pretorius
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2015-12-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/670