Title:
Nadine Gordimer revisited
Author:
Temple-Thurston, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780805746082
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Publication Information:
New York : Twayne Publishers, c1999.
Physical Description:
xix, 166 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 881. African literature
Twayne's world authors series. African literature.
Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 881.
Contents:
Ch. 1. The Rise of a Writer: "Falling, Falling through the Surface" -- Ch. 2. Where Do Whites Fit In? The Lying Days, A World of Strangers, and Occasion for Loving -- Ch. 3. The Novel and the Nation: The Late Bourgeois World, A Guest of Honour, and The Conservationist -- Ch. 4. Living in the Interregnum: Burger's Daughter and July's People -- Ch. 5. Apprentices of Freedom: A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story, and None to Accompany Me -- Ch. 6. The Future Is Another Country: The House Gun.
Abstract:
Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Africa's most distinguished writers of novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews. A South African citizen who remained in that country through the bitterly racist years of apartheid, she gained a reputation for her political activism, particularly her championing of human rights. In this appraisal of Gordimer's twelve novels, Barbara Temple-Thurston stresses the writer's enduring quality as an artist beyond the confines of the politics of apartheid.
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