Rereading Nadine Gordimer
By: Kathrin Wagner.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Gordimer, Nadine -- Political and social views.; Feminism and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Race relations in literature.; Blacks in literature.; South Africa -- In literature.
Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer is generally viewed as a liberal champion of justice against the evils of apartheid South Africa. This provocative rereading of her works sees a more ambivalent and culturebound Gordimer. Wagner examines Gordimer's construction of female identity, her images of blacks, and her landscape iconography, and finds her very much a product of white colonial perspective.

Also examined are the tensions between liberal humanism and radical politics in the novels and her status as a feminist writer. The conclusion reviews the links between romanticism, generalisations, and stereotypes in her work, in the context of a discussion of her latest novel, My Son's Story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-290) and index.