Then and Now: Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012)

Then and Now: Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012)

Author: 
Dimitriu, Ileana
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis Group
Date published: 
2016
Record type: 
Journal article
Region: 
Africa
Southern Africa
Journal Title: 
Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS)
Source: 
Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 42, No. 6, December 2016, pp. 1045-1057
Subject: 
NADINE GORDIMER
NOVELS
APARTHEID
Political aspirations
Personal dilemmas
Abstract: 

I explore two of Gordimer's novels, Burger's Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012), the one written 'then', in apartheid times, the other written 'now', in post-apartheid times. Both, in different ways, subject personal dilemmas to political aspirations. Gordimer reminds the reader that she, as author, continued to test ideals against 'methodical doubt', and that she remained a 'romantic struggling with reality'.

Language: 
English
Country focus: 
South Africa
Catagory URL: 
http://www.tandfonline.com
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1247553

CITATION: Dimitriu, Ileana. Then and Now: Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012) . : Taylor & Francis Group , 2016. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 42, No. 6, December 2016, pp. 1045-1057 - Available at: https://library.au.int/frthen-and-now-nadine-gordimers-burgers-daughter-1979-and-no-time-present-2012