La valise dans le cercueil: l'Afrique et l'avenir des Européens dans les romans de Nadine Gordimer

The wallet in the casket: Africa and the White people's future in the novels of Nadine Gordimer.- The second part (see CEA 94) of a study of the views that the two foremost South African/British women novelists hold about race relations at the personal and group levels in today's and tomorrow's Africa. Nadine Gordimer's novels are hardly less desperate than those of Doris Lessing, yet in most of them there is still a faint glimmer of hope. Instead of fleeing for good to a meaningless exile, her main characters finally choose to come back to Africa on a hopeless bet of survival in a fearful unknown and unknowable future.