Rereading Nadine Gordimer
by Kathrin M. Wagner
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer is generally viewed as a liberal champion of justice against the evils of apartheid South Africa. This provocative rereading of her works sees a more ambivalent and culturebound Gordimer. Wagner examines Gordimer's construction of female identity, her images of blacks, and her landscape iconography, and finds her very much a product of white colonial perspective.
Also examined are the tensions between liberal humanism and radical politics in the novels and her status as a feminist writer. The conclusion reviews the links between romanticism, generalisations, and stereotypes in her work, in the context of a discussion of her latest novel, My Son's Story.
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Blacks in literature, Feminism and literature, History, In literature, Literature and society, Political and social views, Race relations in literature, Women and literature, Gordimer, nadine, 1923-2014, Black people in literaturePeople
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-290) and index.
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