NOVELIST OR SHORT-STORY WRITER? NEW APPROACHES TO GORDIMER’S SHORT FICTION
NOVELIST OR SHORT-STORY WRITER? NEW APPROACHES TO GORDIMER’S SHORT FICTION

Summary/Abstract: Nadine Gordimer is best known as a novelist committed to fighting social injustice. Mainstream criticism has paid little attention to her short fiction, as it has been considered to be less significant politically. This article attempts to rectify such a perception, and to endorse the view that Gordimer’s novels and short fiction are equally appropriate as fictional vehicles for depicting the vagaries of history.

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