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The Novels of Nadine Gordimer : History From the Inside
author
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Clingman, Stephen.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238027
print isbn13
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9780870238024
ebook isbn13
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9780585164106
language
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English
subject
Gordimer, Nadine--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--South Africa--History--20th century, South Africa--In literature, Literature and history, History in literature.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PR9369.3.G6Z62 1992eb
ddc
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823
subject
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Gordimer, Nadine--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--South Africa--History--20th century, South Africa--In literature, Literature and history, History in literature.
Page iii
The Novels of Nadine Gordimer
History from the Inside
Stephen Clingman
Second Edition
Page iv
Copyright 1986 by Stephen Clingman Prologue to the Second Edition, 1992 by Stephen Clingman
All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-87023-802-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clingman, Stephen. The novels of Nadine Gordimer : history from the inside / Stephen Clingman. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-802-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Gordimer, NadineCriticism and interpretation. 2. South Africa in literature. 3. Literature and history. 4. History in literature. I. Title. PR9369.3.G6Z62 1992 823-dc20 92-4691 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
To my parents
Page vi
It is easier to write a history of matter than of consciousness. Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form
Page vii
Contents
Prologue to the Second Edition
ix
Preface
xxxv
Introduction: History from the Inside
1
1 Personal Exploration: Early Work and The Lying Days
21
2 Social Commitment: A World of Strangers
45
3 Social Failure: Occasion for Loving
72
4 The Short and the Long Term: The Late Bourgeois World and A Guest of Honour
90
5 Prophecy and Subversion: The Conservationist
135
6 The Subject of Revolution: Burger's Daughter and July's People
170
7 Deep History
205
Afterword
223
Notes
226
Bibliography and Sources
254
Index
270
Page viii
A pilot study for this book appeared as 'History from the inside: the novels of Nadine Gordimer', Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (April 1981), pp. 16593. A version of Chapter 2 appeared as 'Multi-racialism, or A World of Strangers', Salmagundi, no. 62 (Winter 1984), pp. 3261. Part of Chapter 7 first appeared as 'Writing in a fractured society: the case of Nadine Gordimer', in L. White and T. Couzens (eds.), Literature and Society in South Africa (London: Longman, 1984), pp. 16174. My thanks to Peter Warwick of Longman for permission to use this material.
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Prologue
That truth is not all the truth My Son's Story
Looking back on a book published six years ago can induce a strange sense of parallax: things are true and not true at the same time. Or, is it because one is seeing them at different times that the nature of their respective truths appears different, though these truths may overlap? A changing present affects our view of the past, and there is always the temptation to go back and change, make everything 'fit'. Yet, the temptation offers its own self-contradictory awareness: that the quest for finality can never be fulfilled. Perhaps the deeper truth lies in the sense of parallax itself.
That is one reason why, except for the addition of this new Prologue, nothing has been altered in the book, even though, on occasion, there may be things that I feel could be textured in different ways or changed. The fact is that this book was written from a specific time and setting with a particularly unified vision, and it may be wiser to allow that to come through. Indeed, it seems appropriate that a study that explores Gordimer's historical consciousness should speak so definitely from its own moment. What the text says reflects on its own awareness as much as on the object of its reflections: this is a hermeneutic principle now embodied in my book two ways, and of course it applies to this Prologue as well.
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