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Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin
Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin
Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) Growing up in South Africa where only 5.6 million people are white out of a population of 37.9 million, Nadine Gordimer became increasingly conscious of her whiteness1. The colour of her skin instantly signaled 'oppressor' to black South Africans. Her whiteness imposed upon her a social and political identity that she rejected; yet, it was like a face she could not wash off, a mask she could not take off. As she said in a 1978 interview, 'In South Africa one wears one's skin like a uniform. White equals guilt' (Bazin & Seymour 1990:94). She often …
Smoke, Rénee Olander
What Does That Mean?, Carolyn Rhodes
What Does That Mean?, Carolyn Rhodes
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Decision, Edith White
Grandma, Matilda Cox
Songs Of A Turning Body, Luisa A. Igloria
Songs Of A Turning Body, Luisa A. Igloria
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Cover Girl Run For Cover, Rénee Olander
Cover Girl Run For Cover, Rénee Olander
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Two Birds On A Postcard, Farideh Dayanim Goldin
Two Birds On A Postcard, Farideh Dayanim Goldin
English Faculty Publications
(First paragraph)My sister, Nahid, is four years younger than me. She suffers from osteomyelitis, which began from an infected umbilicus at birth, the result of unsanitary conditions at Morsalin hospital in Iran. She was given massive doses of antibiotics to help fight the infection, followed by surgery at the age of one to drain the affected area. Despite these efforts, the top of Nahid 's right femur was eroded by the infection. It left her with a hanging hip and a severe limp.
Pai Dos Burros, Luisa A. Igloria
Excerpts From "Death Journal", Nancy Olthoff
Excerpts From "Death Journal", Nancy Olthoff
English Faculty Publications
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