NADINE GORDIMER AND THE ARAB WORLD
NADINE GORDIMER AND THE ARAB WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is a study on several novels written by Nadine Gordimer, a writer committed to examining what Apartheid, this extreme form of governing based on the principles of ‘divide and rule’ and ‘separate development’, did to people. The novels None to Accompany Me (1994), The House Gun (1998) and The Pickup (2001) belong to what Gordimer calls the ‘post-Apartheid literature of transition’. The first two novels concentrate on violence and its consequences in the new South Africa, whereas The Pickup illustrates Gordimer’s change of focus from the African to the Arabian world introducing new themes and issues (such as displacement, economic exile, and alienation) along with the ones used in her previous works (migration, freedom, identity, ‘the Self and the Other’ theme).

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