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What this collection offers, then, is not art itself but the record of one woman's fierce dedication to both her art and her politics--and her attempts to negotiate the relationship between them. Living in Hope and History includes graduation addresses, lectures, the author's Nobel acceptance speech, impressively learned essays on Joseph Roth and Günter Grass, and even her correspondence with Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe. Dating from the dark old days of apartheid through the present, the assemblage also offers a moving document of the South African struggle and its eventual fruits. Some of the most exhilarating pieces chronicle the new, postapartheid nation--"The First Time" finds Gordimer standing in voting queues for her country's first democratic elections, and "Act Two: One Year Later" is a celebration of Johannesburg's newfound vibrancy. Living in Hope and History is first and foremost a record of Gordimer's life as a public figure. In these essays, however, the political and the imaginative seem to sound a common, joyful note: this is the way things are, this is the way things should be. --Mary Park
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Book Description Condition: New. Presents a collection of non fiction essays, articles, and appreciations of fellow writers. This work examines the author's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780747548232
Book Description Condition: New. Presents a collection of non fiction essays, articles, and appreciations of fellow writers. This work examines the author's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780747548232