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Translating the Present: Language, Knowledge, and Identity in Nadine Gordimer's July's People:
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In this article, Coetzee describes the feeling of being a savage, of taking the cold road back to the capital, of groping my way out to the ruins in the desert, of returning to the confinement of my cell, of seeking out the barbarians and offering myself to them to use as they wish.Abstract:
ing savage, of taking the cold road back to the capital, of groping my way out to the ruins in the desert, of returning to the confinement of my cell, of seeking out the barbarians and offering myself to them to use as they wish. Without exception they are dreams of ends: dreams not of how to live but of how to die. And everyone, I know, in that walled town sinking now into darkness ... is similarly preoccupied. Everyone but the children!&dquo; J. M. Coetzee, Waitingfor the Barbarians.read more
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Artist in the Interregnum: Nadine Gordimer's July's People
TL;DR: Gordimer chose the epigraph from Antonio Gramsci for July's People as mentioned in this paper, which states: "The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms,”
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Reading the Interregnum: Anachronisms in Gordimer's July's People
TL;DR: Gordimer's novel July's People famously ends with Maureen Smales running towards a helicopter whose contents may carry her "saviours or murderers" (158). But because of the ending's deliberate and famous ambiguity, the text withholds the conclusion to this historical interstice.
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Equality or unity? Black Consciousness, white solidarity, and the new South Africa in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and July’s People
TL;DR: In the early 1970s, the Black Consciousness movement called on black radicals to dissociate themselves from dissident white South Africans, who were accused of frustrating the anti-apartheid cause.
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An Interview With Nadine Gordimer
Karen R. Lazar,Nadine Gordimer +1 more
TL;DR: Gordimer is the doyenne of South African English letters as mentioned in this paper, and her concern has always been that the literature should flourish despite the climate of repression that has created a daily struggle with censorship, bannings of books and people, police intervention, and financial hardships.
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Living without the future: Nadihe Gordimer's July's people
TL;DR: Gordimer et al. as mentioned in this paper described living without the future: Nadihe Gordimer's July's people, 1984, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 215-224.
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Two Reviews of
Robert Howren,Herbert Landar +1 more
TL;DR: Dyen and Aberle as discussed by the authors proposed a method of reconstructing the kinship system of a protolanguage by the lexicostatistical comparison of kin-terms in the daughter languages and exemplified the method by applying it to the Athapaskan languages.