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Nadine Gordimer's one story of a state apart
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ISBN: 9155434371 9789155434373 Year: 1995 Volume: 88 Publisher: Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell : Acta universitatis upsaliensis,

The transformation of political identity from Commonwealth through postcolonial literature : the cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf and Michael Ondaatje
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ISBN: 0773457003 9780773457003 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lewiston Queenston Lampeter : Edwin Mellen Press,

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This book is a study of the current debates about identitarian thought in relation to contexts of postcolonial resistance and reconstruction. How is identity theorized, constructed and claimed in the context of postcolonial political and cultural struggles against imperial hegemony? How is our understanding of identity inflected by the strengthening alliance between postcolonial theory, on the one hand, and the postmodern pull towards ‘de-hegemonization’ on the other? This study assesses different postcolonial ‘relocations’ in cultural and political discourse and highlights the political uncertainties and theoretical fractures that the persistent appeal to Western frameworks of knowledge engenders. This book aligns three white settler nations, namely, Canada, Australia and South Africa, from a socio-political and cultural point of view. It proposes a study of their twin positions as distinctive avatars of postcolonial experience and as illustrative models of a general postcolonial condition. Furthermore, it raises issues of identity and identity politics on the level of literary discourse as well as in terms of national context. The novels of Canadian Michael Ondaatje, Australian David Malouf, and South African Nadine Gordimer present rich thematic parallels; they engage with particular white settler national issues as well as more general postcolonial questions.

Nadine Gordimer
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ISBN: 052147549X 0521433614 0511554397 9780521475495 9780511554391 9780521433617 Year: 1994 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft. Head shows how Gordimer's concerns, apparent in her earliest novels, are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he pursues the implications of this development to consider how Gordimer's later work contributes to postmodernist fiction, and to a recentering of political engagement in an era of uncertainty.

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African literature --- Gordimer, Nadine --- Politics and literature --- Women and literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Politique et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- History --- Histoire --- Criticism and interpretation. --- South Africa --- Afrique du Sud dans la littérature --- In literature --- --History --- Gordimer, Nadine, --- Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "19" GORDIMER, NADINE --- -Postmodernism (Literature) --- -Women and literature --- -Experimental fiction --- -Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- Literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Literature and politics --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- -History --- -History and criticism --- Political aspects --- -Гордимер, Надин --- גורדימר, נדין --- Cassirer, Nadine Gordimer --- Gkorntimer, Nantin --- Godimŏ, Nadin --- In literature. --- -Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "19" GORDIMER, NADINE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- Politique et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Afrique du Sud dans la littérature --- Experimental fiction --- History and criticism --- Гордимер, Надин --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century --- Postmodernism (Literature) - South Africa --- Gordimer, Nadine, - 1923- - Criticism and interpretation --- South Africa - In literature --- History and criticism. --- Gordimer, Nadine, - 1923 --- -South Africa

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