Reimagination of Political Perspectives in Burger’s Daughter
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper examines the influence of political circumstances in South Africa on the life of the author Nadine Gordimer. Gordimer is considered as a towering figure in South Africa who was an active participant in important historical events and a member of The African National Congress. Nadine Gordimer terms politics in two distinct ways, defining it not only as a historical event influencing the phenomenal world of real people, but also the events prevailed in the fictional politics of South Africa and as such is the only threshold necessitating the dramatic conflict of character localized by Nadine Gordimer. During the last sixty years of her life, Nadine Gordimer was a distinguished speaker for the rights of black people in South Africa and a spokesperson against Apartheid and its harmful practices. Her works express the psychological vibration of the whole nation, not just its privileged section, and the story of her characters delineates the strongest currents of South African national history and politics. Her novels propose action instead of passivity; fight, resistance and change instead of social blindness and inertia.
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Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir, Dr. V. K. Saravanan
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