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- Title
SOUTH AFRICA REFORMED: SOCIAL CHANGES IN NADINE GORDIMER'S THE HOUSE GUN.
- Authors
TECUCIANU, Cătălin
- Abstract
Published in 1998, The House Gun is Gordimer's testimony of South African realities four years after the first democratic elections took place. It has been tagged in many ways; as "a courtroom thriller" (The Times), "a triumph (...) a passionate, multi-layered story of awakening" (Yorkshire Post), "an engrossing and deeply considered novel about violence and its consequences" (Esquire), "a work of exceptional caliber" (Sunday Times), or as a "pro-tolerance novel" (Harpers and Queen). At its core, the novel is an attempt to lay bare and account for some of the problems South Africa was facing at that particular moment in time. By taking The House Gun as the point of reference, this papers aims at investigating the changes occurring in the South African social fabric and the new relationships established between blacks and whites.
- Subjects
HOUSE Gun, The (Book); GORDIMER, Nadine, 1923-2014; SOCIAL change; POST-apartheid era in literature; SOUTH African literature
- Publication
International Journal of Communication Research, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 3, p245
- ISSN
2246-9265
- Publication type
Article