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Johan U. Jacobs (essay date 2001)

SOURCE: Jacobs, Johan U. “Finding a Safe House of Fiction in Nadine Gordimer's Jump and Other Stories.” In Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English, edited by Jacqueline Bardolph, pp. 197-204. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

[In the following essay, Jacobs asserts that Jump and Other Stories represents an important stage in Gordimer's political and literary development, as it begins to explore postapartheid political and social issues.]

Nadine Gordimer's fictional achievement has been to present “history from the inside”:¹ A World of Strangers (1958), Occasion for Loving (1963), The Late Bourgeois World (1966), The Conservationist (1974), Burger's Daughter (1979) and July's People (1981) all depict South African lives overdetermined by the rise and fall of the apartheid state. The narrative of apartheid South Africa,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Graham Huggan (essay date spring 1994)
   2. Robert Cancel (essay date fall 1995)
   3. Vera P. Froelich and Jennifer Halle (essay date summer 1998)
   4. Kenneth W. Harrow (essay date 1998)
   5. Judie Newman (essay date 2001)
   6. Johan U. Jacobs (essay date 2001)
   7. Kirkus Reviews (review date 1 January 2003)
   8. Sebastian Smee (review date 7 June 2003)
   9. Carmen Callil (review date 23 June 2003)
   10. Judith Chettle (review date July 2003)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright