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Author: Ellen Glasgow Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 177541986X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 598
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Dive into a richly detailed historical romance that provides a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life in the American South, with a sweeping perspective that considers the challenges facing the working classes, the landed gentry, and everyone in between. An engrossing read for anyone who likes to learn from their romance fiction reads!
Author: Ellen Glasgow Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 177541986X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 598
Book Description
Dive into a richly detailed historical romance that provides a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life in the American South, with a sweeping perspective that considers the challenges facing the working classes, the landed gentry, and everyone in between. An engrossing read for anyone who likes to learn from their romance fiction reads!
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408833034 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 257
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Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in.' It is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. We may examine here Nadine Gordimer's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last, a view from the queue on that first day blacks and whites voted together plus updates on subsequent events. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and she reassesses the role of the writer in the world today.
Author: Barbara Temple-Thurston Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Africa's most distinguished writers of novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews. A South African citizen who remained in that country through the bitterly racist years of apartheid, she gained a reputation for her political activism, particularly her championing of human rights. In this appraisal of Gordimer's twelve novels, Barbara Temple-Thurston stresses the writer's enduring quality as an artist beyond the confines of the politics of apartheid.
Author: David Vital Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 9780198274391 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 396
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Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights into international migration. This is the first book to provide an accessible yet rigorous overview of transnational migration, as experienced by family and kinship groups, networks of entrepreneurs, diasporas and immigrant associations. As well as defining the core concept, it explores the implications of transnational migration for immigrant integration and its relationship to assimilation. By examining its political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions, the authors capture the distinctive features of the new immigrant communities that have reshaped the ethno-cultural mix of receiving nations, including the US and Western Europe. Importantly, the book also examines the effects of transnationality on sending communities, viewing migrants as agents of political and economic development. This systematic and critical overview of transnational migration perfectly balances theoretical discussion with relevant examples and cases, making it an ideal book for upper-level students covering immigration and transnational relations on sociology, political science, and globalization courses.
Author: Rita Barnard Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199791163 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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Apartheid and Beyond explores a wide range of South African writings to demonstrate the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674962323 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 164
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In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
Author: Ronald Suresh Roberts Publisher: Real African Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 740
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A comprehensive account of one of South Africa's most fascinating literary personalities. More than just a chronicle of Gordimer's richly-lived life, this work gives the reader a window into the world - a world both changing and much changed; and, an evolving world of political conflict and struggle, of style and celebrity.
Author: Paula E. Hyman Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295806826 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted “the Jews” as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their writings--memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, and texts of speeches--and finds that Jewish women’s patterns of assimilation differed from men’s and that an examination of those differences exposes the tensions inherent in the project of Jewish assimilation. Patterns of assimilation varied not only between men and women but also according to geographical locale and social class. Germany, France, England, and the United States offered some degree of civic equality to their Jewish populations, and by the last third of the nineteenth century, their relatively small Jewish communities were generally defined by their middle-class characteristics. In contrast, the eastern European nations contained relatively large and overwhelmingly non-middle-class Jewish population. Hyman considers how these differences between East and West influenced gender norms, which in turn shaped Jewish women’s responses to the changing conditions of the modern world, and how they merged in the large communities of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States. The book concludes with an exploration of the sexual politics of Jewish identity. Hyman argues that the frustration of Jewish men at their “feminization” in societies in which they had achieved political equality and economic success was manifested in their criticism of, and distancing from, Jewish women. The book integrates a wide range of primary and secondary sources to incorporate Jewish women’s history into one of the salient themes in modern Jewish history, that of assimilation. The book is addressed to a wide audience: those with an interest in modern Jewish history, in women’s history, and in ethnic studies and all who are concerned with the experience and identity of Jews in the modern world.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408832674 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 204
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When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Author: Charles Hall Grandgent
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Barbara Temple-Thurston
Author: David Vital
Author: Rita Barnard
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Ronald Suresh Roberts
Author: Paula E. Hyman
Author: Nadine Gordimer