Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer is generally viewed as a champion of justice against the evils of Apartheid in South Africa. This rereading of her work sees a more ambivalent and culture-bound Gordimer. Wagner concentrates on Gordimer's construction of female identity, her images of blacks, and her landscape iconography, and finds her very much a prisoner of her colonial lifestyle. Also examined are the tensions between liberal humanism and radical politics in the novels and her status as a feminist writer. The conclusion reviews the links between romanticism, generalizations and stereotypes in the the context of her novel, "My Son's Story".
