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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Nadine Gordimer
• Author: Dominic Head
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780521475495
• ISBN: 052147549X
• ID: 02032377
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 138 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. November 1994

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