July's People
July's People

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1408832968

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For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1410350274

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A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "July's People," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Nadine Gordimer's July's People
Nadine Gordimer's July's People

Author: Brendon Nicholls

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1134718713

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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 July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical survey cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.

Jump and Other Stories
Jump and Other Stories

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1408832631

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In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

Nadine Gordimer's July's People
Nadine Gordimer's July's People

Author: Brendon Nicholls

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1134718780

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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 July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical survey cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.

My Son's Story
My Son's Story

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-11-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 074756275X

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This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.

The House Gun
The House Gun

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1408833018

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A successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror?

Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians

Author: J. M. Coetzee

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1524705470

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A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author: David Whittaker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-08

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1134286481

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Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is the tragic story of an individual set in the wider context of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present and the critical material that surrounds it.

Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1408832941

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In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.