The book examines the theme of acquiescence and resistance in Nadine Gordimer's fiction of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Afrikaner National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948. Since then successive white minority governments of South Africa had enacted and implemented apartheid laws to dominate and rule the majority black population.
Many white liberals fought against the apartheid regime. Nadine Gordimer is one such white
author and activist who has been a bitter critic of apartheid throughout her life. As an artist who is deeply committed to society, she has created a body of fiction that displays a culture of
resistance to the dehumanizing apartheid laws. Gordimer has not only highlighted the issue of
apartheid but she has expressed her voice of dissent through her work -both fictional and non-fictional. This study argues that Gordimer has provided through her work an alternative
Acquiescence and Resistance in the Fiction of Nadine Gordimer
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The book examines the theme of acquiescence and resistance in Nadine Gordimer's fiction of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Afrikaner National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948. Since then successive white minority governments of South Africa had enacted and implemented apartheid laws to dominate and rule the majority black population.
Many white liberals fought against the apartheid regime. Nadine Gordimer is one such white
author and activist who has been a bitter critic of apartheid throughout her life. As an artist who is deeply committed to society, she has created a body of fiction that displays a culture of
resistance to the dehumanizing apartheid laws. Gordimer has not only highlighted the issue of
apartheid but she has expressed her voice of dissent through her work -both fictional and non-fictional. This study argues that Gordimer has provided through her work an alternative
International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this critical study, first published in 1988 and the...
South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on...
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