Town and Country Lovers | The Feminist Aspect of Gordimer's Short Story
In the following essay, Bussey explores
the feminist aspect of Gordimer’s short story and
determines that the story’s female characters represent
a call for female empowerment in apartheidera
South Africa.
In ‘‘Town and Country Lovers,’’ Gordimer sets up two dichotomies. The first is suggested in the title; there are two stories in two settings, both presenting interracial love affairs. The other dichotomy is between the men and women in the stories. The men are both members of the white ruling class, and the women are a black and a colored African living under apartheid. While the women are portrayed as fully formed characters with individual backgrounds and qualities, they represent the limitations, both social and political, placed on women at the time. These powerless figures...
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