The impetus for this paper, and also its centre of concern is the puzzlement, spilling over into plain irritation with which many critics received A Sport of Nature.1 The irritation centred around the portrayal of the main character, the young girl Hillela. She seems to drift aimlessly through the 396 pages, surviving mainly by attaching herself to a series of men, often, it seems, simply because they come in handy. Feminists were outraged. Critics were looking for a serious discussion about options in the deteriorating political climate in South Africa. (This is what one had come to expect from Gordimer who has increasingly taken on the mantle of white radicalism). Radicals and socialists were outraged. As I count myself among the feminist...
Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel prize winning South African author, deals with the complexities of “the O...
Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981) foresees the inevitable collapse of White South Africa and th...
In Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup, Julie Summers finds her sense of place in an unnamed desert country...
Nadine Gordimer, the first Nobel Prize winner of South Africa reflects in her fiction the heart rend...
This article applies principles of new historicism to show that A Sport of Nature can be read as Gor...
It is believed that the concept of feminism oscillated from time to time, and place to place. Femini...
As early as 1959, the white South African novelist, essayist, and short story writer Nadine Gordimer...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.The aim of this study is to suggest, by selective e...
Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Structure and Experience in the Making of Apartheid, 6...
(First paragraph) Growing up in South Africa where only 5.6 million people are white out of a popula...
This article begins by scrutinizing divergent critical views of Gordimer’s subject position and auth...
-In this article he examines the social identity crisis of White South Africans in Nadine Gordimer’s...
The thesis discusses over a century of novel writing by South African women writers as they respon...
Nadine Gordimer’s fictional characters embody unease and often resentment with social class, expecte...
Nadine Gordimer’s most recent novel, The Pickup, is a novel that has its place in what Gordimer has ...
Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel prize winning South African author, deals with the complexities of “the O...
Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981) foresees the inevitable collapse of White South Africa and th...
In Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup, Julie Summers finds her sense of place in an unnamed desert country...
Nadine Gordimer, the first Nobel Prize winner of South Africa reflects in her fiction the heart rend...
This article applies principles of new historicism to show that A Sport of Nature can be read as Gor...
It is believed that the concept of feminism oscillated from time to time, and place to place. Femini...
As early as 1959, the white South African novelist, essayist, and short story writer Nadine Gordimer...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.The aim of this study is to suggest, by selective e...
Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Structure and Experience in the Making of Apartheid, 6...
(First paragraph) Growing up in South Africa where only 5.6 million people are white out of a popula...
This article begins by scrutinizing divergent critical views of Gordimer’s subject position and auth...
-In this article he examines the social identity crisis of White South Africans in Nadine Gordimer’s...
The thesis discusses over a century of novel writing by South African women writers as they respon...
Nadine Gordimer’s fictional characters embody unease and often resentment with social class, expecte...
Nadine Gordimer’s most recent novel, The Pickup, is a novel that has its place in what Gordimer has ...
Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel prize winning South African author, deals with the complexities of “the O...
Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981) foresees the inevitable collapse of White South Africa and th...
In Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup, Julie Summers finds her sense of place in an unnamed desert country...