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Author : Nadine Gordimer
Release : 1980
Genre : Censorship
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Book Synopsis What Happened to Burger's Daughter Or how South African Censorship Works by : Nadine Gordimer
Download or read book What Happened to Burger's Daughter Or how South African Censorship Works written by Nadine Gordimer. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margreet de Lange
Release : 1997-04-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Muzzled Muse by : Margreet de Lange
Download or read book The Muzzled Muse written by Margreet de Lange. This book was released on 1997-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996) A critical assessment of literature produced under censorship needs to take into account that the stategies of the censors are answered by strategies of the writers and the readers. To recognize self-censoring strategies in writing, it is necessary to know the specific restrictions of the censorship regime in question. In South Africa under apartheid all writers were confronted with the question of how to respond to the pressure of censorship. This confrontation took a different form however, depending on what group the writer belonged to and what language he/she used. By looking at white writers writing in Afrikaans and white and black writers writing in English, this book gives the impact of censorship on South African literature a comparative examination which it has not received before. The book considers works by J.M.Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, and others less known to readers outside South Africa like Karel Schoeman, Louis Krüger, Christopher Hope, Miriam Tlali and Mtutuzeli Matshoba. It treats the censorship laws of the apartheid regime as well as, in the final chapter, the new law of the Mandela government which shows some surprising similarities to its predecessor. Margreet de Lange teaches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and coordinates the University’s interdisciplinary program of South African Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “De Lange expertly sketches in the historical and literary backgrounds as she goes, taking us right up to the recent (unsatisfactory) revision of the censorship laws, making The Muzzled Muse a vitally important summary of literary censorship in South Africa, and a handbook of what to guard against in the future.” Shaun de Waal, Mail & Guardian Sept. 26 to October 1, 1997
Author : Nadine Gordimer
Release : 2012-03-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Burger's Daughter by : Nadine Gordimer
Download or read book Burger's Daughter written by Nadine Gordimer. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.
Author : Judie Newman
Release : 2003
Genre : Fathers and daughters in literature
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter by : Judie Newman
Download or read book Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter written by Judie Newman. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burger's Daughter, the seventh novel of South African writer Nadine Gordimer, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero, thus encapsulating the warring conditioning forces in South Africa of race, sex, and class position. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a bibliography. reception, and a bibliography.
Author : Judie Newman
Release : 2014-06-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 896/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals) by : Judie Newman
Download or read book Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals) written by Judie Newman. This book was released on 2014-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 first by a woman, Judie Newman discusses Gordimer’s novels, including A Sport of Nature. Gordimer’s writing is both political committed and formally innovative, confronting subject matter of great contemporary interest and at the same time seeking out narrative forms that combine European and indigenous culture. Her novels are sensitive to their context, while also offering an important contribution to postmodernist reassessments of narrative poetics, and a challenge to European conceptions of the novel. Judie Newman places particular emphasis on Gordimer’s searching investigation of the relation of gender to genre, and explores other major concerns such as the crisis of liberal values, the nature of historical consciousness, racism, sexual politics, and the psychopathology of power. Her study combines close literary analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of ideas, showing clearly how the artist can contribute to contemporary debate.
