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Living in hope and history : notes from our century / Nadine Gordimer
Bib ID 1601623
Format BookBook
Author
Gordimer, Nadine
 
Edition 1st ed. 
Description New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 
viii, 244 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0374189919 (alk. paper) 
Summary

"Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadin Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure - an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers everywhere. Including her reminiscences of Nelson Mandela and Gunter Grass, her correspondence with the Japanese novelist Kenzabu Oe, and her reflections on race in Africa and America, these passionate writings lay bare the preoccupations of a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics
  • The Status of the Writer in the World Today: Which World? Whose World?
  • Turning the Page: African Writers and the Twenty-first Century
  • References: The Codes of Culture
  • The Lion, the Bull, and the Tree
  • Gunter Grass
  • The Dialogue of Late Afternoon
  • Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of Empire and Exile
  • An Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer
  • 1959: What Is Apartheid?
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Gordimer, Nadine - Authorship.  |  Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century.  |  Literature and history - South Africa - History - 20th century.  |  Literature and morals - History - 20th century.  |  Ethics in literature.  |  Fiction - Authorship.

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