Brockes, Emma. “A Life in Books. Nadine Gordimer”. The Guardian, 6 Nov. 2010, pp. Review 12 - 13.
Review 12
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Mary Renault | Initially her political views coincided with those of another novelist, Nadine Gordimer
, and both supported anti-censorship efforts in the Johannesburg PEN International Centre
. Later Gordimer supported the African National Congress
and the development... |
politics | Nadine Gordimer | NG
's anti-apartheid politics were formed by small personal experiences. The first was seeing, as a twelve-year-old, police destroying the backyard room of a black servant while the employers, her parents, watched impassively. Brockes, Emma. “A Life in Books. Nadine Gordimer”. The Guardian, 6 Nov. 2010, pp. Review 12 - 13. Review 12 |
politics | Nadine Gordimer | These three men (who continue to play significant roles in South African public life in the early twenty-first century) had been initially arrested, along with many others, in April 1985. The Delmas Trial, which escalated... |
politics | Nadine Gordimer | NG
regarded it as an act of loyalty to be critical when appropriate of the African National Congress
once it was in power, and of President Thabo Mbeki
, who was the second post-apartheit president... |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | This book maintains DM
's habit of noticing the seldom noticed: here the culture of poor whites, publicly parading with appeals for work, most of them drunk or stoned. The amount of information and cogitation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nadine Gordimer | The novella Something Out There relates a successful strike against a power station by ANC
revolutionaries, Rose, Jacqueline. “A Use for the Stones”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 20-3. 20 |
Travel | Vera Brittain | She also spoke to a number of women's groups during her stay in South Africa. After several refusals, she and her husband were finally allowed to visit Chief Albert Luthuli
, President-General of the African National Congress |
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