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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      10 November 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511554391
      9780521475495
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554391
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.295kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Computational Linguistics, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (2)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Computational Linguistics, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (2)
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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.

    Awards

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991

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