Nadine Gordimer

Klappentext Discusses Gordimer's distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction! and to literature that opposes/challenges apartheid. Zusammenfassung Dominic Head discusses Nadine Gordimer's novels in the contexts of events and situations of the real world! and of Gordimer's own development as a writer. Her work is seen as a distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction! and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gordimer and South Africa: themes, issues and literary identity; 2. The early novels: The Lying Days, A World of Strangers, and Occasion for Loving; 3. Developing narrative muscle: The Late Bourgeois World, A Guest of Honour, and The Conservationist; 4. The construction of identity: Burger's Daughter and July's People; 5. Self-reflexive reassessments: A Sport of Nature and My Son's Story; 6. The short stories; 7. Gordimer as postmodernist?

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Head
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.1994
• EAN: 9780521475495
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47549-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in African &
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures