The Development of Nadine Gordimer's Career from 1953 to the present time Prof. Yehia Kamil | ||
| سرديات | ||
| Article 5, Volume 9, Issue 33, September 2019, Pages 127-152 PDF (415.08 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sardiat.2019.95253 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a small gold mining town of about 20,000 people on Johanesburg's East Rand. In 1991, Gordimer won the Noble Prize.The main influence on Nadine Gordimer is her possessive mother, who invented the fiction of the former having a "heart problem" to maintain a suspicious relationship with the local doctor. Gordimer stresses that her mother's unforgivable action has influenced and shaped her life: Gordimer’s aim , throughout her writing career, is to be invisible, to create some sort of identification between the reader and what is being written about as well as the people in the work, and to involve the reader rather than to distance him. Both the false heart problem, invented by her mother, and her involvement in South African history define Gordimer’s career. She provides her private history with public associations, being interested in the radical transformation in the interaction between the private character and the public landscape, which occurs during the course of her career. In her early novels, characters fail to develop a connection between their private lives and the public landscape. Unlike the firm restraint with which she depicts the South African situation in her early novels, Gordimer, in her later ones, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, and July’s People, portrays the increasing interaction of observer and world observed. She stresses the necessity of the artist getting involved with his or her world. The end of apartheid in 1994 marks a new beginning for Nadine Gordimer, creating fresh narrative possibilities, and presenting questions for the South African writer about the alternative subjects that are supposed to preoccupy him/or her. Gordimer has always written as a white liberal of the left, trying to project herself far enough out of the privilege of being a white South African. Her writing has been so subtle it helps and forces readers to find their way back from her words into her mind. She has sustained a tense dialectic between the personal and the political, being praised for her acute, almost lyrical sensitivity, richness of style, and detail. Gordimer has been heralded as having the ability to catch the implications of the smallest gesture or nuance, tracing its connections back to broader social and political arenas, and offering a kind of Freudian psychopathology of the everyday life. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Possessive; invisible; identification; landscape; associations; involvement apartheid; implications; psychopathology | ||
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