NADINE GORDIMER’S “NOT FOR PUBLICATION” AND POST-COLONIAL POLITICAL POWER DURING THE APARTHEID REGIME
Journal Title: Ideação - Year 2007, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
Post-colonial criticism of the short story ‘Not for publication’ (1965), by South African Nadine Gordimer, is provided. Gordimer’s literary works deal with denunciation and critique of colonialism and its consequences in the context of apartheid. The text deals with the power of colonial discourse and unmasks the false, apparently good intentions of the colonizer towards the colonized, represented by Praise Basetse. The poor Negro boy is manipulated by wellintentioned, pro-Negro white colonizers in order to sustain their political power over the country. Praise faces the necessity and difficulty of resisting against the situation. His rebellion proves that colonial discourse may be disrupted and undermined. Results reveal the strategies the colonizers use to perpetuate power in the colony and the silent and gradual conscious-raising stances of the colonial subjects against further impairment to their autonomy and subjectivity.
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Sarah Casagrande, Thomas Bonnici
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