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Apartheid in Nadine Gordimer’s Conservationist

isara solutions, 2019

Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure of world literature, has been directly involved with the racial and cultural struggle of South Africa, South Africa as a country condenses, many major problems facing the world today, that of class, race and culture. As a writer, living in the world that she depicts in her novels, she is like an ‘inside observer’ who presents an 'inside history', of the lives and people of South Africa going through the transient phases of political upheavals. The political, social and literary situations prepared her mind to write against the exploitation and cruel policies of white rulers. We can say that there was something in her blood which revolted her against the white laws which segregated the blacks from white and made the native homeless in their own homeland.

Playing At Home: An Ecocritical Reading of Nadine Gordimer's 'The Pickup'

In Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup, Julie Summers finds her sense of place in an unnamed desert country. By following the man she falls in love with back to his homeland, Julie must leave her comfortable cosmopolitan life behind. Although the text superficially presents the reader with this simple love story, the tone of the narration itself undermines Julie’s quest and troubles her easy adoption of a new home. This article draws on South African ecocritical and postcolonial approaches to explore the ways in which Julie’s privilege informs her relationship with her environments. Namely, this article is interested in showing how the text subtly questions whether a return to the land is possible in a context (of legacies of apartheid and realities of globalization) when land is never neutral (if it ever was). By framing her text around questions of citizenship tied to place, Gordimer presents a critique of the restorative power of the pastoral through the slippery character of Julie Summers.

Voice of Resistance: Exploring Apartheid, Power, and Race in Nadine Gordimer's Selected Novels

This research article interprets Gordimer's novels as an expression of resistance against black oppression in pre-apartheid South Africa. Looking at her insightful and evocative depictions of some of the major political issues in selected works, the present work discusses their relevance and importance in the contemporary world. The current paper uses a qualitative approach to examine the impact of the apartheid regime on individuals and communities in South Africa, as well as the impact of political events on individuals, the author's preoccupation with power and its impact on people's lives as well as her treatment of race and related issues. Gordimer highlights how political events and power structures can influence and disrupt the lives of individuals and communities through her characters and their experiences. Her works offer a vivid and insightful critique of how apartheid regimes and other political systems are used to control and manipulate individuals and communities.

Social Concerns : Race, Gender, Identity and Communal Spheres in Nadine Gordimer's Selected Novel

2020

The society in South Africa remains an unequal society based on social class perspective. Even the authorities admit that the society is divided into the rich, middle class and the poor. These reflect the purchasing power of different classes. The rich continues to have economic advantage, the middle class are in high depth of debts, and the poor are trapped in poverty. Gordimer’s novels are so valuable historically because they are so accomplished and developed as fiction.Connecting outer social reality and the inner self, Gordimer’s works are concerned with “private reverberations of public occurrences". Her works are indeed artistic transformations of social reality. As a writer with social consciousness and a social activist who rose against anti-human establishment, Gordimer displays an unmatched skill in integrating the political moods of her society into the very form and texture of her fiction. Nadine Gordimer’s fictional characters embody unease and often resentment wi...