Nadine Gordimer

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Paperback | 9 January 1995

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The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft. Head shows how Gordimer's concerns, apparent in her earliest novels, are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he pursues the implications of this development to consider how Gordimer's later work contributes to postmodernist fiction, and to a recentering of political engagement in an era of uncertainty.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Preface	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Chronology	p. xv
Gordimer and South Africa: themes, issues and literary identity	p. 1
The early novels: The Lying Days, A World of Strangers and Occasion for Loving	p. 34
Developing narrative muscle: The Late Bourgeois World, A Guest of Honour and The Conservationist	p. 77
The construction of identity: Burger's Daughter and July's People	p. 110
Self-reflexive reassessments: A Sport of Nature and My Son's Story	p. 136
The short stories	p. 161
Conclusion. Gordimer: postmodernist?	p. 182
Notes	p. 194
Select bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 219
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