Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A CasebookSouth African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer on the novel, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a bibliography. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
An Interview with Nadine Gordimer about Burgers Daughter | 27 |
Waiting for Revolution | 41 |
The Subject of Revolution | 55 |
Leaving the Mothers House | 81 |
Race and Sex in Burgers Daughter | 99 |
The Degeneration of the Great South African Lie | 117 |
The Synthesis of Revelation | 131 |
What the Book Is About | 149 |
Still Waiting for the Great Feminist Novel | 167 |
Lighting a Torch in the Heart of Darkness | 185 |
The Politics and Poetics of Burgers Daughter | 205 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A Casebook Casebooks in criticism |
| Editor | Judie Newman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0195147170, 9780195147179 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / African |
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