Nadine Gordimer: July's People

Course Update

I have added three more articles to the reading list.

The guidelines, final instructions, writing prompts, and grade sheet for the final research paper is available in the assignments section. use the navigation bar link to go to and download the assignments from the assignments page.

Class Discussions

I will continue our discussions on July's People.

Seminar presentations will be made by Nancy and Kelly, Jared and Donald, and Joshua.

Additional Reading on July's People.

In addition to the materials dsitributed in class, find below additional critical reading material on Nadine Gordimer and on July's People.

Masters and Servants: Nadine Gordimer's July's People and the Themes of Her Fiction. Rowland Smith. (Click on link for full text and citation).

Apartheid and the Decline of the Civilization Idea: An Essay on Nadine Gordimer's July's People and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. Paul Rich. (Click on link for full text and citation).

Living without the Future: Nadine Gordimer's July's People. Nancy Bailey. (Click on link for full text and citation).

Madam and Boy: A Relationship of Shame in Gordimer's July's People. Barbara Temple-Thurston. (Click on link for full text and citation).

Literature and Civil Society in South Africa. Frank Schulze-Engler. (Click on link for full text and citation)

July's People: Gordimer Radical Critique of White 'Liberal' Attitude. M. A. Quayum (Click on link for full text and citation)

National Photographic: Images of Sensibility and the Nation in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Nadine Gordimer's July's People. Laura Wright. (Click on link for full text and citation)

Dreams of a Common Language: Nadine Gordimer's July's People. Jeff Gordon.(Click on link for full text and citation)

Masters and Servants: Nadine Gordimer's July's People and the Themes of Her Fiction. Rowland Smith. (Click on link for full text and citation).

Complications of Birth: Interfaces of Gender, Race and Class in July's People. Andre Brink. (Click on link for full text and citation).

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