Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter A Casebook

Name: Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter A Casebook
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ISBN: 9780195147179

ISBN-10: 0195147170

ISBN-13: 9780195147179

Edition: 2003

Authors: Judie Newman

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Burger's Daughter, the seventh novel of South African writer Nadine Gordimer, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero, thus encapsulating the warring conditioning forces in South Africa of race, sex, and class position. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and anessay by Nadine Gordimer, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a bibliography. reception, and a bibliography.

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660

1. Introduction 2. 'A Story for this Place and Time': An Interview with Nadine Gordimer about Burger's Daughter, Susan Gardner 3. Waiting for Revolution, Conor Cruise O'Brien 4. The Subject of Revolution, Stephen R. Clingman 5. Leaving the Mother's House, John Cooke 6. Prospero's Complex: Race and Sex in Burger's Daughter, Judie Newman 7. Nadine Gordimer, The Degeneration of the Great South African Lie 8. Burger's Daughter, The Synthesis of Revelation 9. What the Book is About, Nadine Gordimer 10. Still Waiting for the Great Feminist Novel, Susan Gardner 11. Burger's Daughter: Lighting a Torch in the Heart of Darkness, Lorraine Liscio 12. Exiled In and Exiled From: The…