Abstract Setting itself within the ongoing debate surrounding the political and aesthetic
commitments of the author's work, this essay provides an alternative to broadly political …

When read in what were perhaps South Africa's darkest decades, the 1970s and 1980s,
Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist seemed to be a rather apocalyptic novel. But the …

What is the role of art in a troubled world? What are the rights and obligations of the artist?
These questions have haunted and inspired Nadine Gordimer throughout her distinguished …

Compared with Nadine Gordimer's other novels-A Guest of Honour (1970) and Burger's
Daughter (1979), for example-The Conservationist (1974) contains little overt political …

How will Nadine Gordimer be read in the next century, when the conflict in South Africa may
no longer be dramatic front-page news? Andrew Vogel Ettin offers a persuasive interpretive …

N adine Gordimer's ten novels and seven collections of short stories constitute an
impressive fictional achievement that is remarkable for its unity of vision and singleness of …

Abstract With South Africa in the process of eliminating the remaining vestiges of imperialism
by returning sovereignty to its indigenous population, one must hope that the course for …

Have those white South African novelists, committed to the struggle against racism,
depended upon apartheid, in a ghastly paradox, for their literary inspiration? Will feted …

Crossing lines: the novels of Nadine Gordimer with a particular focus on Occasion for loving
and The pickup Novelist, playwright, short-story writer, polemicist and activist, Nadine …

This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through
readings of Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers' What Is the What …