Author: Mateti Prabhakar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527532887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The book explores the complex problem of apartheid, racial segregation in South African society and the struggle against the “colour bar” represented in the fictional world of Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate of the South African Letters. It shows how Gordimer, a crusader for the human rights of black people, has launched a lifetime battle against the apartheid regime’s unjust and heartless censorship of creative writing and freedom of speech in South Africa by virtue of fictionalizing her human rights activism, thereby teaching humanity. It demonstrates how black people are denied their basic human rights from the cradle to the grave by the white chauvinistic apartheid regime. This volume is a space for scholars, writers and activists to debate issues related to race, class and human rights.
Human Rights and Nadine Gordimer's Fiction
Author: Mateti Prabhakar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527532887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The book explores the complex problem of apartheid, racial segregation in South African society and the struggle against the “colour bar” represented in the fictional world of Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate of the South African Letters. It shows how Gordimer, a crusader for the human rights of black people, has launched a lifetime battle against the apartheid regime’s unjust and heartless censorship of creative writing and freedom of speech in South Africa by virtue of fictionalizing her human rights activism, thereby teaching humanity. It demonstrates how black people are denied their basic human rights from the cradle to the grave by the white chauvinistic apartheid regime. This volume is a space for scholars, writers and activists to debate issues related to race, class and human rights.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527532887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The book explores the complex problem of apartheid, racial segregation in South African society and the struggle against the “colour bar” represented in the fictional world of Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate of the South African Letters. It shows how Gordimer, a crusader for the human rights of black people, has launched a lifetime battle against the apartheid regime’s unjust and heartless censorship of creative writing and freedom of speech in South Africa by virtue of fictionalizing her human rights activism, thereby teaching humanity. It demonstrates how black people are denied their basic human rights from the cradle to the grave by the white chauvinistic apartheid regime. This volume is a space for scholars, writers and activists to debate issues related to race, class and human rights.
No Time Like the Present
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408830302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her homeland South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced.In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer brings the reader into the lives of Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a 'mixed' couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom - the 'better life for all' that was fought for and promised - is being created but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love.The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408830302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her homeland South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced.In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer brings the reader into the lives of Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a 'mixed' couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom - the 'better life for all' that was fought for and promised - is being created but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love.The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.
My Son's Story
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074756275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074756275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
July's People
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
The Pickup
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747557950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747557950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man
Jump and Other Stories
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Writing and Being
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674962323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674962323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK
ISBN: 9780747593843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The lastest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Nadine Gordimer.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK
ISBN: 9780747593843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The lastest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Nadine Gordimer.
The Conservationist
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101571063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101571063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
The House Gun
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408833018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror?
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408833018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror?