1st Edition

Nadine Gordimer's July's People A Routledge Study Guide

By Brendon Nicholls Copyright 2011
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements  Notes and References  Introduction  1: Text and Contexts  Nadine Gordimer: Life and Works  Apartheid South Africa: History and Culture  July’s People: detailed discussion   2: Critical History  Early Reviews  The 1980s  The 1990s  July’s People in the New Millenium  Post-Apartheid Controversy  3: Critical Readings  From The Lying Days to July’s People: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer,’ by Robert Green ‘July’s People,’ by Judie Newman  ‘July’s People,’ by Stephen Clingman   ‘July’s People in Context: Apartheid’s Dystopias Abroad,’ by Andrew van der Vlies  ‘Postcolonial Apocalypse and the Crisis of Representation in July’s People,’ by Oliver Lovesey  Further Reading

Biography

Brendon Nicholls is Lecturer in Postcolonial and African Literatures in the School of English, University of Leeds. He is author of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading (2010).