None to Accompany Me (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: South Africa
- Principal Characters: Vera Stark, Bennet Stark, Ivan Stark, Annick “Annie” Stark, Adam Stark, Oupa Segake, Didymus Maqoma, Sibongile “Sally” Maqoma, Mpho Maqoma, Otto Abarbanel, Lou, Tertius Odendall, Zeph Rapulana
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Power, personal or social, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Lesbianism or lesbians, South Africa or South Africans, Democracy, 1990’s, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa
In A Sport of Nature (1987), Nadine Gordimer imagined an almost magically peaceful end to South Africa’s years of racial and political turmoil. In that novel, she concluded with a massive rally and celebration as power was transferred from whites to blacks, and a freely elected majority president took his oath of office. This was a poetic fancy, not a political prediction, but perhaps it was not far off the mark after all. In spite of last-minute terrorism, brutal intertribal violence, and grisly “necklacing” of “traitors,” the transition to majority rule in South...
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