Gordimer, Nadine.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The first comprehensive collection of Gordimer’s nonfiction.
- The 1950s: A South African childhood: allusions in a landscape (1954) — Hassan in America (1955) — Egypt revisited (1959) — Chief Luthuli (1959) — Apartheid (1959). The 1960s: The Congo (1961) — Party of one (1963) — A bolter and the invincible summer (1963) — Censored, banned, gagged (1963) — Great problems in the street (1963) — Notes of an expropriator (1964) — Taking into account: Simone de Beauvoir’s Force of circumstance (1966) — One man living through it (1966) — Why did Bram Fischer choose jail? (1966) — The short story in South Africa (1968) — Madagascar (1969). The 1970s: Merci Dieu, it changes: Accra and Abidjan (1971) — Pack up, black man (1971) — Unchaining poets (1972) — The new black poets (1973) — A writer’s freedom (1976) — English-language literature and politics in South Africa (1976) — Letter from Soweto (1976) — What being a South African means to me: address at the University of Cape Town (1977) — Transkei: a vision of two blood-red suns (1978) — Relevance and commitment (1979) — Pula!: Botswana (1979). The 1980s: The prison-house of colonialism: Ruth First’s and Ann Scott’s Olive Schreiner (1980) — Letter from the 153rd state (1980) — The South African censor: no change (1981) — Unconfessed history: Alan Paton’s Ah, but your land is beautiful (1982) — Mysterious incest: Patrick White’s Flaws in the grass: a self-portrait (1982) — The child is the man: Wole Soyinka’s Aké: the years of childhood (1982) — Living in the interregnum (1983) — The idea of gardening: J.M. Coetzee’s The life and times of Michael K (1984) — New notes from underground: Breyten Breytenbach’s Mouroir (1984) — The essential gesture (1985) — Letter from Johannesburg (1985) — Huddleston: a sign (1988) — The gap between the writer and the reader (1989) — Censorship–the final solution: the case of Salman Rushdie (1989) — The African pot (1989). The 1990s: A writer’s vital gift to a free society: The Satanic verses (1990) — Freedom struggles out of the chrysalis (1990) — Sorting
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