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NADINE GORDIMER AS STUDIED

Gordimer is studied from a very wide variety of perspectives: as a woman writer, as a postcolonial writer, in the context of African, and particularly South African fiction, and in relation to the traditions of the novel and the short story. As a highly intertextual writer, often referring to other writers in her works, she is also intimately connected with many other novelists, poets, and playwrights, and with a variety of nonfiction writers.

Although Gordimer herself memorably described feminism as “piffling,” she has nonetheless been studied in relation to women's writing. Lauretta Ngcobo's Cross of Gold (1981), which takes the Sharpeville massacre as its starting point and then focuses on life in the rural areas, is worth reading in conjunction with July's People, Gordimer's only novel to focus on rural rather than urban blacks. Ngcobo's second novel, And They Didn't Die (1990), continues the examination...

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1. Introduction
2. Chronology
3. About Nadine Gordimer
4. Nadine Gordimer At Work
5. Nadine Gordimer's Era
6. Nadine Gordimer's Works
7. Nadine Gordimer As Studied
8. Further Reading
9. Copyright

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