Nadine Gordimer: Familiar Tales From South Africa

• Authors: Luiza Caraivan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the new perspectives in Nadine Gordimer’s writings, focusing on her post-Apartheid works. The concepts of home, relocation, cultural diversity, violence and the issue of the Other are examined, as they represent the key factors in defining and understanding South Africa and its multicultural and multiracial communities.

Keywords

EN

multiculturalism; otherness; relocation; South Africa; violence

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 71-77

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Luiza Caraivan

• “Dimitrie Cantemir” University, Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0009