Burger’s Daughter (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1962-1977
- Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nice, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Political fiction
- Subjects: Social action, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Africa or Africans, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutionaries, Race, Revolutions, Social issues, Fathers, Adultery, Ethics, South Africa or South Africans, Martyrs or martyrdom, Apartheid
- Locales: Johannesburg, South Africa, Nice, France
Characters Discussed
Rosemarie (Rosa) Burger, the daughter of white South African Communists, now seeking her own identity. Rosa is a complex, serious young woman who was reared in a household dedicated to the struggle against apartheid. Both of her parents were imprisoned at various times throughout her childhood, and their deaths have now left her emotionally at sea, uncertain whether her identity as “Lionel Burger’s daughter” is one she wants or is able to live up to. The book’s story is that of her slow journey toward self- knowledge and self-acceptance.
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