The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer

by Bruce King (Editor)

Overview

Nobel Prizewinner Nadine Gordimer's novels and short stories from The Conservationist to Jump have been her best and most controversial work. This new book examine such topics as the autobiographical basis of her fiction, her relationship to feminism, the place of the white woman in black Africa, the ambiguity of revolutionary politics, her ambivalent relationship to Judaism, her use of irony, the symbolism of landscape, and the ways in which she has revised recurring topics throughout her career as a writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349226849
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/12/1993
Edition description:	1st ed. 1993
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

I: INTRODUCTION - A Changing Face; B.King - 2: GENERAL ESSAYS - 'Nobodies Children': Families in Gordimer's Later Novels; J.Cooke - Collector's Art, Collective Action: The Search for Commitment in Gordimer's Fiction; G.Huggan - Black and White in Grey: Irony and Judgement in Gordimer's Fiction; R.Smith - Placing Spaces: Style and Ideology in Gordimer's Later Fiction; B.Macaskill - Landscape Iconography in the Novels of Nadine Gordimer; K.M.Wagner - 3: THE NOVELS - The Conservationist and the Political Uncanny; L.Engle - The Interregnum of Ownership in July's People; R.Bodenheimer - The Politics of Place in Burger's Daughter; D.Read - Making Metaphors/Moving On: Burger's Daughter and A Sport of Nature; S.Winnett - A Sport of Nature: Identity and Repression of the Jewish Subject; M.Wade - A Sport of Nature and the Boundaries of Fiction; S.Clingman - My Son's Story: Drenching the Censors, the Dilemma of White Writing; S.M.Greenstein - 4: THE SHORTER FICTION - Feminism as 'piffling'? Ambiguities in Gordimer's Short Stories; K.Lazar - Once More into the Burrows: Gordimer's Later Short Fiction; A.R.Lomberg - Archive of Apartheid: Nadine Gordimer's Short Fiction at the End of the Interregnum; J.Colleran - Index