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Nadine Gordimer's July's people
Title
Nadine Gordimer's July's people / [edited by] Brendon Nicholls.
ISBN
1134718713
1306132827
131588142X
9781134718719
9781306132824
9781315881423
0415420717
0415420725
9780415420716
9780415420723
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 157 pages)
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Summary
Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity. This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical ess.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Nadine Gordimer's July's people
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge guides to literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Notes and references
Introduction: text and contexts; Nadine Gordimer: life and works
Apartheid South Africa: history and culture
July's people: detailed discussion
Critical history: early reviews; the 1980s; the 1990s; July's people in the new millenium post-apartheid controversy
Critical readings: from The lying days to July's people: the novels of Nadine Gordimer / by Robert Green; July's people / by Judie Newman; July's people / by Stephen Clingman; July's people in context: apartheid's dystopias abroad / by Andrew van der Vlies; Postcolonial apocalypse and the crisis of representation in July's people / by Oliver Lovesey.
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