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Gordimer, Nadine
Blair, Peter
Blair, Peter
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A prolific South African novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) is known for her opposition to apartheid and censorship. Her many honours include the Booker Prize (1974) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1991). This article outlines Gordimer’s writing career in relation to the form of “internal colonialism” known as apartheid, and to the postcolonial condition of South Africa after apartheid. It describes how Gordimer’s fiction, which combines critical realism with late-modernist experimentation, articulates three phases: “liberal”, “radical”, and “post-apartheid”.
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Blair, P. (2016). Gordimer, Nadine. In S. Ray, & H. Schwarz, (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell.
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