| Title: | ANTI-APARTHEID POINT OF VIEW IN NADINE GORDIMER`S NOVELS |
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| Authors: | ID Šerbec, Andrejka (Author)
ID Gadpaille, Michelle (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  UN_Serbec_Andrejka_2015.pdf (512,57 KB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Typology: | 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | My graduation thesis focuses on four novels: Burger`s Daughter, July`s People, The World of Strangers and The Late Bourgeois World, written by Nadine Gordimer. In her novels she used point of view to signal her opposition to apartheid.
Nadine Gordimer is a white author who lived in South Africa during the years when the policy of apartheid was very much alive. The novels were published between 1958 and1981. The time setting of all novels is during the apartheid, which plays a significant role in the lives and fates of the characters. These literary works present what it was like living under apartheid and the terrible consequences of it for black South Africans, but mostly for white people who wanted to make their contribution in the anti-apartheid struggle. Her anti-apartheid point of view is reflected through various themes.
The main characters in her novels are whites, male and female, who strongly disagree with the institution of apartheid and want to overthrow it, but at the same time she shows the sufferings of exploited black people. She mentions many historical events that took place in South Africa, but she focuses on the lives and emotions of the protagonists and the relationships between them, and she builds a work of literature over historical details. Her literary works provide a mirror through which the people of South Africa in the decades of apartheid could view themselves. Through her characters the whole historical process is crystallized. |
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| Keywords: | apartheid, anti-apartheid, Nadine Gordimer, Burger`s Daughter, The Late Bourgeois World, The World of Strangers, July`s People |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [A. Šerbec] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2015 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-47256 |
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| UDC: | 821.111(680)-311.2(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 21161736 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:OJQX6E1L |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 16.02.2015 |
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| Categories: | FF
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