Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)

A selective list of literary criticism for the British, South African novelist and short story writer, 1991 Nobel Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer, featuring signed articles by recognized scholars and other peer-reviewed material


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"NADINE GORDIMER DIES AGED 90: Nobel-prize-winning chronicler of apartheid died peacefully in Johannesburg on Sunday." The Guardian 14 July 2014.


literary criticism

Bazin, Nancy Topping. "An Interview with Nadine Gordimer." Contemporary Literature 36, 4 (Winter 1995) pp 571-87 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Boyers, Robert. "The Art of Nadine Gordimer." Salmagundi 93 (Winter 1992) pp 188-202 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Clingman, Stephen. "History from the Inside: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer." Journal of Southern African Studies 7, 2 (April 1981) [jstor preview or purchase].

Coundouriotis, Eleni. "Rethinking cosmopolitanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist." College Literature 33, 3 (Summer 2006) [muse, abstract only].

Diala, Isidore. "Nadine Gordimer: The Mandela Myth and Black Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa." English in Africa 32, 2 (Oct. 2005) pp 135-54 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Driver, Dorothy. "Nadine Gordimer: The Politicisation of Women." English in Africa 10, 2 (Oct. 1983) pp 29-54 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Greenstein, Susan M. "Miranda's Story: Nadine Gordimer and the Literature of Empire." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 18, 3 (Spring 1985) pp 227-42 [jstor preview or purchase].

Trump, Martin. "The Short Fiction of Nadine Gordimer." Research in African Literatures 17, 3 (Autumn 1986) pp 341-69 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].


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