Author : Brendon Nicholls
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nadine Gordimer's July's People by : Brendon Nicholls

Download or read book Nadine Gordimer's July's People written by Brendon Nicholls. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity. This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical survey cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.