{"id":38183,"date":"2014-11-27T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=38183"},"modified":"2020-11-10T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:37:50","slug":"nadine-gordimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=38183","title":{"rendered":"Nadine Gordimer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South African novelist and short-story writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Most of Nadine Gordimer<\/strong>‘s works deal with the moral and psychological tensions of her racially divided home country. She was a founding member of Congress of South African Writers, and even at the height of the apartheid regime, she never considered going into exile…<\/p>\n

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Nadine Gordimer<\/strong>\u00a0(1923-2014) was born into a well-off family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. It was the setting for Gordimer’s first novel,\u00a0The Lying Days\u00a0<\/em>(1953)…<\/p>\n

From her early childhood Gordimer witnessed how the white minority increasingly weakened the rights of the black majority.\u00a0In her first\u00a0collection of short stories,\u00a0Face to Face\u00a0<\/em>(1949), which is not listed in some of her biographies, Gordimer revealed the psychological consequences of a racially divided society. The novel\u00a0The Lying Days<\/em>\u00a0(1953) was based largely on the author’s own life and depicted a white girl, Helen, and her growing disaffection toward the narrow-mindlessness of a small-town life. Other works in the 1950s and 1960s include\u00a0A World of Strangers\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(1958),\u00a0Occasion for Loving<\/em>\u00a0(1963), and\u00a0The Late Bourgeois World\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(1966). In these novels Gordimer studied the master-servant relations, spiritual and sexual paranoias of colonialism, and the shallow liberalism of her privileged white compatriots…<\/p>\n

Gordimer won early international recognition for her short stories and novels. The Conservationist\u00a0<\/em>(1974) juxtaposed the world of a wealthy white industrialist with the rituals and mythology of Zulus.\u00a0Burger’s\u00a0Daughter\u00a0<\/em>(1979) was written during the aftermath of Soweto uprising. In the story a daughter analyzes her relationship to her father, a martyr of the antiapartheid movement.\u00a0July’s People\u00a0<\/em>(1981) was a futuristic novel about a white family feeing from war-torn Johannesburg into the country, where they seek refuge with their African servant in his village.<\/p>\n

Gordimer’s early short story collections include\u00a0Six Feet of the Country\u00a0<\/em>(1956),\u00a0Not for Publication<\/em>\u00a0(1965) and\u00a0Livingstone’s Companions\u00a0<\/em>(1971).<\/p>\n

[Source: \u00a0www.kirjasto.sci.fi\/gordimer.htm]<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Ultimate Safari’<\/em>\u00a0 tells the story of refugees fleeing the civil war in\u00a0Mozambique. Three children from a poor village \u00a0are at home -a house with no roof- their parents do not return at the end of the day. Having heard that the children are alone, their grandparents come take them to their (grandparents\u2019) house. The grandparents take the decision to flee to the South African border, as many others were doing at the time. With very little food and water they make the long journey through the Kruger park and they struggle for survival: with others, they kill game in the park for food but can seldom make fire \u00a0to avoid park rangers who would most likely have them sent back to their war ravaged villages. Their grandfather, weary from travel, dies in the Kruger.<\/span><\/p>\n

They finally arrive at the refugee camp and register to get a sleeping tent, food and medication. The children go to school in this refugee camp and the story ends with a foreign journalist interviewing the grandmother in the tent about returning to Mozambique after the war, she answers\u00a0\u201cThere is nothing. No home.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0Listen<\/strong>\u00a0[from 01’30\u00bb] to Nadine reading an abridged version\u00a0\u2193 [remember the narrator is 11 years of age]<\/p>\n