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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Nadine Gordimer"”.
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Space and censorship in Nadine Gordimer : a literary geography
… censors' response to one writer in particular, Nadine Gordimer. My argument will show that in Gordimer, some spaces seem to be more acceptable than others, as evidenced by the censors' response to her work. Six of her novels were submitted for scrutiny by the Censorship Board. Three were banned, …
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Denise Brahimi 'Nadine Gordimer la femme, la politique et le roman' : traduction et activités traduisantes
The nature of the translation process, that is, what occurs in the translator's mind when attempting to translate thoughts and ideas from one language to another, remains an enigma. The focus of this dissertation falls within the relatively unexplored field of "process-orientated descriptive …
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Representations of writers as public intellectuals : Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Gao Xingjian and Pablo Neruda
… memoirs and lectures of Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Pablo Neruda and Gao Xingjian.
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Representations of writers as public ntellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Gao Xingjian and Pablo Neruda
… essays, memoirs and lectures ofJean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Pablo Neruda and Gao Xingjian. Chapter I is concerned with Sartre's attempt to systematize a conception of the writer as an intellectual through the writer's commitment in the work itself. Chapter 2 looks at the development of …
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A study of the development of the structures and themes in the short stories of Nadine Gordimer
Most current studies of Gordimer concern themselves with her novels, and her short stories have not received significant critical attention as stories in their own right, worthy of study both for their structural and formal qualities, and for the contribution they make as social, political and …
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Psychodynamic perspectives on the master-servant relationship and its representation in the work of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer
… fiction of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer. Furthermore, it is pointed out how patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism can be interpreted in the light of the dynamics proposed by Klein; it is argued that South Africa is a patriarchal, capitalist and colonial society and the …
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Narrativa universal de fines del Siglo XX. Estudio comparativo de la novelística de cuatro premios nobel: Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, José Saramago Y Naguib Mahfuz.
En este trabajo, el objeto de estudio es la novela contemporánea, a la cual se le ha realizado el análisis estructuralista propuesto por Tzvetan Todorov en su Morfología del relato. Todorov es un estudioso de la literatura, que tuvo auge en los años setentas, aunque su aporte no se reduce solamente …
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"Ah, what an age it is, when to speak of trees is almost a crime" : national landscapes and identities in the fiction of Nadine Gordimer
In this study, I will explore the ways in which Nadine Gordimer engages with the natural world in three of her novels: The Conservationist (1974), July's People (1981), and No Time Like the Present (2012). I argue for the importance of the relationship in her work, between the natural landscapes of …
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… South African authors such as Olive Schreiner, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Abrahams, Zoë Wicomb, Lewis Nkosi, and Yvette Christiansë, and a poetry collection by Douglas Livingstone. In these texts, the littoral is presented as a space which is governed by the spatial politics of that era, but also …
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Let me show you : mentors, role models, and multiple role planning of gifted young women
… and Harriet Tubman to Eleanor Roosevelt and Nadine Gordimer have enhanced our lives through their gifts and accomplishments. Since many of these gifted women have succeeded in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles, it is often assumed that all gifted women will be able to achieve …
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White writings : colonialism and modernism in South African literature since 1970
… This critique leads white writers such as Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee to reject a literary tradition found to be rooted in a colonial past and embodying colonial assumptions that are no longer tenable. This rejection of their cultural patrimony leads white writers to seek new ways of …