Nadine Gordimer's July's People: A Routledge Study Guide

by Nicholls; Brendon

• ISBN13: 9780415420723
• ISBN10: 0415420725
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134718788
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Nadine Gordimeer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race gender and identity.

Author Biography

Bredon Nicholls is Lecturer in Postcolonial and African Literatures in the School of English, University of Leeds. He is author of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonical Reading (2010).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Text and contexts	p. 5
Nadine Gordimer: life and works	p. 7
Apartheid South Africa: history and culture	p. 16
July's People: detailed discussion	p. 20
Critical history	p. 37
The early reviews	p. 39
The 1980s	p. 51
The 1990s	p. 60
July's People in the new millennium	p. 69
Post-Apartheid controversy	p. 73
Critical readings	p. 75
'From The Lying Days to July's People: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer,'	p. 77
'July's People,'	p. 97
'July's People,'	p. 103
'July's People in Context: Apartheid's Dystopias Abroad,'	p. 115
'Postcolonial Apocalypse and the Crisis of Representation in July's People,'	p. 130
Further reading	p. 147
Index	p. 151
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