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Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
However different their lives, Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer share the common heritage of having grown up in southern Africa. All three were profoundly affected by that experience. Their responses to the colonialist, racist, and sexist attitudes that permeated their lives have determined, to a major extent. the nature of their fiction. Their novels reflect the grotesque situations and bizarre human relationships created by prejudice, injustice, and the desire to dominate. These three authors focus on the mad nature of this social and political situation in southern Africa. In their works, dystopian and utopian visions of the future …
Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
Reviews the book `Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer,' by Andrew Vogel Ettin.