Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867527
Total Pages : 185 pages
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Download or read book Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Maria-Luiza Caraivan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer’s works: the uniqueness of terror in a difficult historical period, the desire to annihilate racial oppression, and, above all, the psychological alienation provoked by racism. The analysis also focuses on literary topics that are specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings, such as the significance of multiculturalism, the status of writers, the banalisation of violence due to mass-media coverage, the reconciliation with a violent past, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, economic exile, and migration. The book proposes in five chapters a journey into Nadine Gordimer’s novels, short stories and non-fiction that presents the reader with a multifaceted Other who is no longer specific to postcolonial and multicultural South Africa but can be identified across the globe as alterity is redefined by globalization.

Truer Than Fiction

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Publisher : Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG
ISBN 13 : 9783838100661
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Truer Than Fiction by : Karina Magdalena Szczurek

Download or read book Truer Than Fiction written by Karina Magdalena Szczurek and published by Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's most prominent authors. In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. TRUER THAN FICTION charts this iconic writer's post-apartheid work, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the four novels she published between 1994 and 2005: NONE TO ACCOMPANY ME (1994), THE HOUSE GUN (1998), THE PICKUP (2001), and GET A LIFE (2005). The study includes a brief biographical outline of Gordimer's life and a discussion of her long-standing status as 'the voice' of South Africa. It also provides the contemporary socio-historical and literary contexts for her work after the country's first democratic elections in 1994. The core of the study constitutes a thematic assessment of Gordimer's fiction and non- fiction after 1994, explored in the light of these contexts. Drawing upon such schools of thought as postcolonial theory, cultural studies, ecocriticism, feminist criticism and gender studies, as well as the rich critical reception of her writing, TRUER THAN FICTION illuminates the continued importance of Nadine Gordimer's oeuvre in her home country and across the world.

Romance

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838357
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Romance by : Dana Percec

Download or read book Romance written by Dana Percec and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance: The History of a Genre is a collection of essays devoted to the highly popular and no less controversial genre of romance. A genre often disregarded for its stereotypical language, shallow characters, and predictable plots, dismissed as “women’s” fiction, accused of conventionalism, romance is a genre which, after ups and downs in its millennial history, is now holding a leading position on the international bookselling market. This achievement has also been possible with the endorsement of contemporary media and modern technology, cinema, television, the Internet, etc. Much has been written in both traditional and more recent literary theory about the origins and evolution of the early forms of romance, from the classical Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and into the Renaissance and early modernity in Western Europe. A corpus, which is becoming more and more substantial today, is already available about the gendered status of contemporary romance, both in terms of the writing ethos and in terms of reader response, with theories coming from the combined areas of feminism, social sciences, and psychoanalysis. The aim of the present volume is that of noting the fluid character of the genre, with the great number of subcategories, mixed and hybrid, bringing evidence to the polymorphous nature of contemporary popular culture. This book proposes, in four parts and twelve chapters, a fascinating and multifaceted journey into the history, substance and geography of romance. From its origins to the latest developments, from its subgenres to its features, from print to film, from television to Facebook, romance comes in various shapes and colours, which the reader can fully explore. The journey in the world of romance takes the reader from familiar corners to less familiar ones: from North America, Great Britain, Romania, or Turkey, to India or South Africa. The numerous approaches to romance generate diverse data, varied analytical frameworks and interesting, fresh and solidly grounded findings.

A Serious Genre

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889660
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Serious Genre written by Dana Percec and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Serious Genre: The Apology of Children’s Literature is a collection of essays by scholars and academics from Romania, the United States and Turkey, who investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called, using an umbrella term, children’s literature. The volume is the fourth in a series, which focuses on literary genres which are considered marginal or low-brow, but which have a long tradition and display remarkable versatility and popularity. Previous volumes in the collection presented the historical novel (2010), romance (2012), and fantasy (2014). In this book, fourteen essays approach children’s literature from different angles, from classical Victorian children’s books to the latest film adaptation of The Hobbit, from adult narrators of children’s stories to children narrators of adult stories. The book addresses researchers, teachers and students with an interest in literature, literary theory and genre analysis, but it will also appeal to the wider public, given the flexibility and friendly nature of children’s literature.

Nadine Gordimer's One Story of a State Apart

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Total Pages : 232 pages
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A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer's, Andre Brink's and J.M. Coetzee's Works

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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825883492
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer's, Andre Brink's and J.M. Coetzee's Works written by Eva-Marie Herlitzius and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pickup

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747557950
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pickup by : Nadine Gordimer

Download or read book The Pickup written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man

Living in Hope and History

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747544715
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Living in Hope and History written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers everywhere. In a letter to fellow Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes "Living in Hope and History" as a "modest book of some of the nonfiction pieces I've written, a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in." It is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles, and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991.

None to Accompany Me

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832992
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book None to Accompany Me written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.

The Dissenting Writer in South Africa

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (869 download)

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The Late Bourgeois World

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408836009
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Late Bourgeois World by : Nadine Gordimer

Download or read book The Late Bourgeois World written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues.Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?

Nadine Gordimer

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415006606
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Nadine Gordimer by : Judie Newman

Download or read book Nadine Gordimer written by Judie Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Get a Life

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832674
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Get a Life by : Nadine Gordimer

Download or read book Get a Life written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.

Inhabiting the "new" South Africa

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ISBN 13 : 9783868210156
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Inhabiting the "new" South Africa by : Sonja Altnöder

Download or read book Inhabiting the "new" South Africa written by Sonja Altnöder and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Located at the interface of literary and cultural studies, this study explores the multi-layered processes of transformation in post-apartheid South Africa as well as the narrative (re)productions and (re)presentations in four novels by South African women writers: Zoë Wicomb's 'David's story', Sindiwe Magona's 'Mother to mother', Nadine Gordimer's 'The pickup' and Farida Karodia's 'Boundaries'. Based on a threefold theoretical framework, the "new" South Africa is regarded as a perpetually unfolding, trans-different time-space, in which cultural identities must be negotiated at the interface of multiply intersecting affiliations. As the boundary lines of apartheid's categories of difference have become increasingly blurred, the ensuing experience of uncertainty demands an ethical encounter with the (cultural) other. Juxtaposing the readings of four literary texts reveals striking similarities, but also pertinent divergences in their renditions of the Rainbow Nation and, above all, engenders a hetergogenous chorus of South African voices." -- book cover.

The Novels of Nadine Gordimer

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747513902
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis The Novels of Nadine Gordimer by : Stephen Clingman

Download or read book The Novels of Nadine Gordimer written by Stephen Clingman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels and short stories of Nadine Gordimer are acclaimed throughout the world. In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet until Stephen Clingman's study of her work, few will have been aware of how deeply it has responded to the history of South Africa over the past forty years.;This study traces that history. Drawing out the central themes of her work, the book follows a developing consciousness of history through Gordimer's novels, to contribute towards a history of consciousness in South Africa. Major periods and events are covered, from the political triumph of the National Party in 1948 to the vibrant social and political world of the fifties; from the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 to the Soweto Revolt of 1976, and beyond.;For Gordimer's many readers this book will provide an illuminating guide to an author whose work mirrors and reflects the turbulence of South African history as well as of our own times.;Nadine Gordimer's novels include "The Conservationist", joint winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, "Burger's Daughter", "July's People", "A Sport of Nature" and "My Son's Story". Among her collections of short stories are "A Soldier's Embrace", "Something O

Media, Identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474048
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Media, Identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Abebe Zegeye and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection reveal that the social and political development of post-apartheid South Africa depends to an important degree on the evolving cultural, social and political identities of its diverse population and on the role of the media of mass communications in the country's new multicultural democracy. The popular struggle against the country's former apartheid regime and the on-going democratisation of South African politics have generated enormous creativity and inspiration as well as many contradictions and unfulfilled expectations. In the present period of social transformation, the legacy of the country's past is both a source of continuing conflict and tension as well as a cause for celebration and hope. Post-apartheid South Africa provides an important case study of social transformation and how the cultural, social and political identities of a diverse population and the structure and practices of the media of mass communications affect the prospects for developing a multicultural democracy. The promise and the challenge of building a multicultural democratic society in a country with a racist and violent authoritarian legacy involves people with different identities and interests learning how to respect their differences and to live together in peace. It involves developing an inclusive or overarching common identity and a commitment to working together for a common destiny based on social equity and justice. South Africa's media of mass communications have an important role to play in the process of unprecedented social transformation - both in developing the respect for differences and the overarching identity as well as providing the public forum and the channels of communication needed for the successful development of the country's multicultural democracy. In South Africa, the democratization of the media must go hand in hand with the democratization of the political system in order to ensure that the majority of the citizenry participate effectively in the country's multicultural democracy. Topics covered include The "Struggle for African Identity: Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance", "Between the Local and the Global: South African Languages and the Internet", "Shooting the East/Veils and Masks: Uncovering Orientalism in South African Media" and "Black and White in Ink: Discourses of Resistance in South African Cartooning". Contributors are Pal Ahluwalia, Gabeba Baderoon, Richard L. Harris, Sean Jacobs, Elizabeth Le Roux, Andy Mason, Thembisa Mjwacu, Herman Wasserman, and Abebe Zegeye.

Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer

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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer by : Rowland Smith

Download or read book Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer written by Rowland Smith and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: