July's People

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

Nadine Gordimer's July's People

Author: Brendon Nicholls
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134718713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
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 essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical survey cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.

Burger's Daughter

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408832941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.

A Soldier's Embrace

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Viking Press
ISBN: 9780140059250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Collects twelve short stories of the talented South African writer, many originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Harper's and including the celebrated "Town and Country Lovers"

Life Times

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747596182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

Book Description
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing 'a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.' Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.

A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410350274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "July's People," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Author: Miranda July
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours. In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly—they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters’ idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.

None to Accompany Me

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.

July's People

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140061406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minority For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in character and relationships—gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878054459
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July's People, The Pickup, and many other book