Interviews & Reviews

Selected Interviews

Interview by Susan Rich, "Home Truth" in US journal "Poets and Writers", Vol 26, Issue 5, September/October 1998

Interview by Charl-Pierre Naude, "Dogteroe van buite" in South African magazine, "Insig", September 2002

Interview with Susan Rich in the South African journal "New Coin" December 1997. This now appears in the collection "South African Poets on Poetry: Interviews from New Coin 1992-2001" Edited by Robert Berold, University of Natal Press, 2003

Interview by Erica Kelley "Strangely tender: an interview with Ingrid de Kok" in the South African journal "scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa", vol 8, no 1, 2003

Interview by Paola Splendore, "La rappresentabilita del dolore" in the Italian journal Leggendaria 43, Febbraio 2004

Interview by Dorothea Steiner, "Severities and Gusto: An Interview with Ingrid de Kok" in "Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader" Eds Michela Borzaga and Dorothea Steiner, Poetry Salzburg, Salzburg, 2004

Interview by Jenney Penberthy, "Cartography of One's Own Country" in The Capilano Review, Series 2, No 46, Spring 2005

Interview by Eleanor Wachtel 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/THE_ARTS_TONIGHT/20061108.shtml

Interview: New Letters on the Air 2006
http://www.newletters.org/onTheAir.asp

Selected Recent Reviews

Susan Rich on Transfer
http://www.pw.org/mag/mag9809.htm

Simon Lewis on Terrestrial Things
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=175221048835719

Robert Pinsky on Seasonal Fires
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801409.html

Shaun de Waal on Seasonal Fires
http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2007/2007feb/070202-poetry.html

Selected citations; work taught at universities

Ingrid's poetry has been or is being taught at numerous universities and colleges in Canada and the United States and elsewhere in the world. It is regularly taught at universities in South Africa and at matriculation level at schools.

Select titles

Charles M. Anderson, An Arrival, A Departure, A Narrative that Continues to Emerge. Literature and Medicine, 26.2 (Fall 2007):6.

Rita Barnard, Another Country: Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary South Africa. Postmodern Culture, Vol 9, Number 1, September 1998.

Brophy, Sarah, Spearey, Eileen. 'Compassionate Leave'? HIV/AIDS and Collective Responsibility in Ingrid de Kok's Terrestrial Things. Literature and Medicine, 26, No. 2 (2007 Fall): pp. 312-341.

Kwame Dawes, Review. ‘Ten South African Poets’ by Adam Schwartzman, World Literature Today, Vol 75, No 3/4 (Summer-Autumn 2001) pp.125-126.

Anneleen de Jong, Portraying a Story: The Narrative Function of the Human Form in Contemporary Art of South Africa. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, No. 4, Poetics of African Art (Winter 2000), pp. 125-138.

Sam Durrant, ‘The invention of mourning in post-apartheid literature’. Third World Quarterly, Vol 26, No 3, (2005), pp. 441-450.

Sam Durrant, “Mourning, gender and community in post-apartheid South Africa.” Unpublished paper presented at the “Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ten Years of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Conference,” University of Cape Town, 22-26 November 2006.

Annie Gagiano, Adapting the National Imaginary: Shifting Identities in Three Post-1994 South African Novels. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, Special Issue: Writing Transition in South Africa: Fiction, History, Biography (Dec., 2004), pp. 811-824.

Colin Gardner, Negotiating Poetry: A New Poetry for a New South Africa. Theoria: A Journal of Studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 77, (1991 May): pp.1-14.

Arjun Ghosh, Review (untitled). Postcolonial Text, Vol 3, No 3 (2007).

Shane Graham, The Truth Commission and Post-Apartheid Literature in South Africa. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 11-30.

Helen Kapstein, Review: Outsider Theory: A North American Academic Reads South Africa. Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, Anthony O'Brien. Contemporary Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 559-562.

Dirk Klopper, Narrative Time and the Space of the Image: The Truth of the Lie in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's Testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Poetics Today, Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 453-474

Loren Kruger, Review (untitled). Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 | Negotiating the past: The Making of Memory in South Africa/ Reviewed Authors(s): Rosemary Jolly; Derek Attridge | Sarah Nuttall; Carli Coetzee. Modern Philology, Vol. 97, No. 4 (May, 2000), pp. 633-639.

Simon Lewis, Review: [untitled]. Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, ed. Anthony O'Brien. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 223-224.

Simon Lewis. Review of Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things. Humanities and Social Sciences Net (H-Net Online). February 2003. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=175221048835719

Rob Nixon, Aftermaths. Transition, No. 72 (1996), pp. 64-78.

Robert Pinsky, Review of ‘The head of the household’. The Washington Post, October 1, 2006.

Ralph Pordzik, Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32, No. 3, Nationalism (Autumn 2001), pp. 177-197.

K. Price, Christiania Whitehead, Deborah Garrison, Ingrid de Kok. PN Review, Vol 26, Part 5, (2000) p.73.

Susan Eileen Spearey, "May the unfixable broken bone/ … give us new bearings": Ethics, Affect and Irresolution in Ingrid de Kok's A Room Full of Questions. Postcolonial Text, Vol. 4. No. 1 (2008), pp. 1-24.

Charles Sugnet, Review. Africa Today, Vol. 50, No. 2, Oral Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge, (Autumn - Winter, 2003), pp. 112-114.

Theses with discussions of Ingrid de Kok’s work (selected)

Logan Broeckaert, ‘A triumph of the new South Africa over the old": Heritage and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa, 1994—1999.’ M.A. Thesis, McGill University (Canada), 2008.

Kerry Bystrom, ‘Orphans and origins: Family, memory, and nation in Argentina and South Africa, 198 3 - 2005. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 2007.

S. Frost, ‘The Personal/History: A Feminist Exploration of Ingrid de Kok and Joan Meterlerkamp’, MA mini-thesis, University of Natal, 1998.

Sarah Groeneveld, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, ‘The Reconstitution of Humanity and Nationhood in the Post-Apartheid Poetry of Ingrid de Kok and Jeremy Cronin,’ paper presented at the Annual African Literature Association, 2008.

Mashudu Mashige, ‘Identity, culture and contemporary South African poetry’, Ph.D. dissertation, Rand Afrikaans University, 2004.

Kim Roston, ‘Collective Trauma, the Body and literary forms of witness’, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Isabelle Vogt, "‘Born in Africa but…’ Women’s Poetry of post-Apartheid South Africa in English", Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. München, 2008

Selected books and chapters in which reference is made to Ingrid de Kok’s work

Mary DeShazar, A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa and the United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1994.

Shane Graham, “Apartheid Prison Narrative, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the construction of national (traumatic) memory,” in Graeme Harper, ed. Colonial and post-Colonial Incarceration, New York: Continuum, 2001.

Shane Graham, “Words that Look like Acts: Ingrid de Kok’s Transfer and Terrestrial and Things,” in South African Literature after the Truth Commission. New York: Palgrave, 2009.

Anthony O’Brien, Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, Duke University Press, 2001.

Rajeev Sridhar Patke, Postcolonial Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Jane Wilkinson, Revisioning the Child: Mourning and Survival in poems by Ingrid Jonker, Ingrid de Kok and Karen Press. Working and Writing for tomorrow: Essays in Honour of Itala Vivan, eds. A Oboe, C Gualtieri and R Bromley, Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, Nottingham 2008.

Gina Whisker, “A Gesture of Belonging: Creativity and Place in South African Women’s Writing, in Nahem Yousaf, ed. Apartheid Narratives, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001.