The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer - Edited by Bruce King - Palgrave Macmillan

Sep 20, 2026

Scholarly collection edited by Bruce King examining Nadine Gordimer’s later fiction through a set of general essays, analysis of the novels, and studies of her shorter stories. Contributors address themes such as families and political commitment, irony and judgment, style and ideology, and landscape iconography. The book also considers ownership and place, identity and repression, censorship and white writing, and the end-stage archive of apartheid in Gordimer’s short fiction, supported by a detailed index.

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Pages254

Reading Time6 h 31 min

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Introduction: A Changing Face

Part I General Essays

Part II The Novels

Part III The Shorter Fiction

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Edited by Bruce King The Later Fiction ofNadine Gordimer # THE LATER FICTION OFNADINE GORDIMER Also by Bruce King THREE INDIAN POETS:Ezekiel,Ramanujan and MoraesMODERN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISHTHE NEW ENGLISH LITERATURES:Cultural nationalism in a changing worldCORIOLANUS HISTORY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISHLITERATURE MARVELL'S ALLEGORICAL POETRYDRYDEN'S MAJOR PLAYS Books edited by Bruce King POST-COLONIAL ENGLISH DRAMA:Commonwealthdrama since 1960 THE COMMONWEALTH NOVEL SINCE 1960WEST INDIAN LITERATURE A CELEBRATION OF BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITINGLITERATURES OF THE WORLD IN ENGLISHINTRODUCTION TO NIGERIAN LITERATURECONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATREDRYDEN'S MIND AND ART TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS OFALL FOR LOVE:A collection of critical essays Series editor MODERN DRAMATISTSENGLISH DRAMATISTS # The Later Fiction ofNadine Gordimer Edited byBruce King Palgrave Macmillan ◎ The Macmillan Press Ltd 1993Editorial matter,selection and Introduction Bruce King 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 All rights reserved.For information,write:Scholarly and Reference Division,St.Martin's Press,Inc.,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 First published in the United States of America in 1993 ISBN 978-0-312-08534-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Later fiction of Nadine Gordimer/edited by Bruce King.p.cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-08534-6 1.Gordimer,Nadine—Criticism and interpretation.2.SouthAfrica in literature.I.King,Bruce Alvin.PR9369.3.G6G761993823—dc2092-13518 CIP This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael Wade whodied,an exile from South Africa,in Jerusalem,September1990.He was an excellent critic,author of three books aboutSouth African literature,a revolutionary and a friend.Theessay included here was edited,with his wife’s permission,from a longer version.B.K. Contents Notes on the Contributors ix Introduction:A Changing FaceBruce King 工 Part I General Essays 1 Nobody's Children':Families in Gordimer'sLater NovelsJohn Cooke 亿 2 Collector's Art,Collective Action:The Search forCommitment in Nadine Gordimer's FictionGraham Huggan 334559 3 Black and White in Grey:Irony and Judgement inGordimer's FictionRowland Smith 4 Placing Spaces:Style and Ideology in Gordimer'sLater FictionBrian Macaskill 5 Landscape Iconography in the Novels ofNadine Gordimer74Kathrin M.Wagner Part II The Novels 6 The Conservationist and the Political Uncanny91Lars Engle 7 The Interregnum of Ownership in July's People108Rosemarie Bodenheimer 8 The Politics of Place in Burger's Daughter121Daphne Read 9 Making Metaphors/Moving On:Burger's Daughterand A Sport of Nature140Susan Winnett viii 10 A Sport of Nature:Identity and Repression of theJewish Subject155Michael Wade 11 A Sport of Nature and the Boundaries of Fiction173Stephen Clingman 12 My Son's Story:Drenching the Censors-the Dilemmaof White Writing191Susan M.Greenstein Part III The Shorter Fiction 13 Feminism as Piffling'?Ambiguities in Gordimer's Short Stories 213 Karen Lazar 14 Once More into the Burrows:Gordimer's LaterShort FictionAlan R.Lomberg 228 15 Archive of Apartheid:Nadine Gordimer's ShortFiction at the End of the InterregnumJeanne Colleran 237 Index # Notes on the Contributors Rosemarie Bodenheimer is Professor of English at Boston Collegeand author of The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction. Stephen Clingman,a South African,is Professor of English at theUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst.His publications include TheNovels of Nadine Gordimer:History from the Inside and the editing ofGordimer's The Essential Gesture:Writing,Politics and Places Jeanne Colleran teaches English at John Carroll University,Cleve-land,Ohio.Her interests include drama,South African and Renais-sance literature. John Cooke is Professor of English at the University of New Or-leans,author of The Novels of Nadine Gordimer:Private Lives/PublicLands

FAQs

What is the structure of the book?

It is organized into three parts: general essays, essays on the novels, and essays on Gordimer’s shorter fiction, followed by notes on the contributors and an index.

Which aspects of Gordimer’s later work do the essays address?

The essays cover themes such as families, collective action and commitment, irony and judgment, style and ideology, place and ownership, identity and repression, censorship, and apartheid-era short fiction.

Who edited the collection and who are the contributors?

Bruce King edited the volume. The contributors include scholars such as John Cooke, Graham Huggan, Rowland Smith, and other academics listed in the contributor notes.

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