BEYOND RACE: TODAY LITERATURE NADINE GORDIMER THE PICKUP AND THE HOUSE GUN

Ngozi Gloria Adunchezor

Abstract


Apartheid in South Africans was characterized with the humiliation exploitation and discrimination for the Blacks. The post-apartheid is an abrupt shift away from a racial focus towards a wider concern with all the many and various dimensions of human existence. This research uses the fictional works of Nadine Gordimer to capture the experiences of South Africans especially as it concerns the Black. This research will analyse the effect of post-apartheid on the literature of South Africa. In the texts under study using their thematic preoccupation which include: quest for love and errors of parents. The findings therefore reveals that South Africa has gone beyond race.


Keywords


Apartheid in South Africa, Humiliation Expliotation and Discrimination, Human Existence and Post Apartheid

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