Gordimer, Nadine (Vol. 7) - Gordimer, Nadine 1923–
Gordimer, Nadine 1923–
Ms Gordimer is a South African novelist and short story writer. Her fiction inevitably touches on the political changes in her homeland. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Nadine Gordimer has, among her many delicate strengths, three that [in discussing The Conservationist] prove especially apt: her sense of the language of others and of other languages; her sense of her own creative language; and her sense of her own and of others' sexuality. For the first, I'd cite the subtle and various comprehensions which she has of the relationships between English, Afrikaans, and the native languages of the Africans and the Indians—relationships that are sometimes political, sometimes merely politic, and sometimes constitute the irremovable relationships, family ones: "He and the people there greeted each other with 'brother,' 'sister,' 'mother,' 'uncle,' a grammar of intimacy that went with their...
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