Conversations with Nadine Gordimer - Literary Conversations Series

Marc Notes: Announced in cloth at $ 29.95 South; With a glossary of old-time. Publisher Marketing: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's most admired writers of novels and short stories. This volume collects three decades of her interviews. In them she presents her attitudes toward her art and its interconnection with the oppressive, volatile politics in her native land. She has traveled extensively to other countries only to discover that no matter how white her skin she is indeed African and the only country she can call home is South Africa. If you write honestly about life in South Africa, apartheid damns itself, she says. She is ruthlessly honest, and her fiction has played the vital role of communicating in detail to the rest of the world the effects of apartheid upon the daily lives of the South African people. To maintain her integrity, she writes as though she were dead, without any thought of how anyone will react to what she has written. She remains heroically undaunted both by the banning of three of her novels by the white government and by the protests of radical blacks who assert that whites cannot write convincingly about blacks. She is concerned neither with the image of blacks nor with the image of whites, only with revealing the complexity, the full truth. This truth condemns the racism upon which apartheid is built. In her nine novels and eight volumes of short stories, Gordimer digs deeper and deeper until she has thematic layers. These include betrayal-political, sexual, every form and power, the way human beings use power in their relationships. Her accounts in these interviews of how she works and of which writers she admires will fascinate readers, scholars, teachers, and students alike. Co-editors Nancy Topping Bazin retired from the faculty of the English and women's studies departments at Old Dominion University, and Marilyn Dallman Seymour retired from the staff of the Government Publications Department of the Old Dominion University Library. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 778 (EAN 9780878054459, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 764 (EAN 9780878054459, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 778 (EAN 9780878054442, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 764 (EAN 9780878054442, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 786 (EAN 9780878054442, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 995 (EAN 9780878054442, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 1019 (EAN 9780878054442, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Gordimer, Nadine Nadine Gordimer (1923 2014) was born in South Africa. She received numerous international prizes for her writing, including the Modern Language Association Award, the Bennett Award, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She was given honorary degrees by Yale, Harvard, and other universities and was honored by the French government with the decoration Commandeur de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.