Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

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Telling times : writing and living, 1954-2008 Nadine Gordimer - 1st American ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co. 2010. - 742 p. ; 25 cm

The first comprehensive collection of Gordimer's nonfiction.

South African childhood: allusions in a landscape Hassan in America Egypt revisited Chief Luthuli Apartheid Congo Party of one Bolter and the invincible summer Censored, banned, gagged Great problems in the street Notes of an expropriator Taking into account: Simone de Beauvoir's Force of circumstance One man living through it Why did Bram Fischer choose jail? Short story in South Africa Madagascar Merci Dieu, it changes: Accra and Abidjan Pack up, black man Unchaining poets New black poets Writer's freedom English-language literature and politics in South Africa Letter from Soweto What being a South African means to me: address at the University of Cape Town Transkei: a vision of two blood-red suns Relevance and commitment Pula!: Botswana Prison-house of colonialism: Ruth First's and Ann Scott's Olive Schreiner Letter from the 153rd state South African censor: no change Unconfessed history: Alan Paton's Ah, but your land is beautiful Mysterious incest: Patrick White's Flaws in the grass: a self-portrait Child is the man: Wole Soyinka's Ake: the years of childhood Living in the interregnum Idea of gardening: J.M. Coetzee's The life and times of Michael K New notes from underground: Breyten Breytenbach's Mouroir Essential gesture Letter from Johannesburg Huddleston: a sign Gap between the writer and the reader Censorship--the final solution: the case of Salman Rushdie African pot Writer's vital gift to a free society: The Satanic verses Freedom struggles out of the chrysalis Sorting the images from the man: Nelson Mandela Censorship and its aftermath Joseph Roth: labyrinth of empire and exile Turning the page: African writers on the threshold of the twenty-first century Beyond myth: Mandela's mettle Rising to the ballot Letter from South Africa Cannes epilogue Remembering Barney Simon Our century Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? Poor are always with us: the eradication of poverty From a correspondence with Kenzaburo Oe Octavio Paz: poet-archer When art meets politics Letter to future generations Five years into freedom: my new South African identity Hemingway's expatriates: a way of looking at the world Africa's plague, and everyone's What news on the Rialto? Dwelling place of words Entitlement approach Ballad of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Joseph Conrad and Almayer's folly William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe Coincidence of wills? Witness--past or present? Fear eats the soul Living with a writer Edward Said With them you never know: Albert Memmi Chinua Achebe and Things fall apart Home truths from the past: Machiavelli or Erasmus? Atlantis Thirst Questions journalists don't ask "To you I can": Gustave Flaubert's November Leo Tolstoy and The death of Ivan Ilyich Susan Sontag Witness: the inward testimony Personal Proust Desmond Tutu as I know him Lust and death: Philip Roth's Everyman Faith, reason and war Naguib Mahfouz's Three novels of ancient Egypt Experiencing two absolutes Lion in literature The 1950s: A (1954) -- (1955) -- (1959) -- (1959) -- (1959). The 1960s: The (1961) -- (1963) -- A (1963) -- (1963) -- (1963) -- (1964) -- (1966) -- (1966) -- (1966) -- The (1968) -- (1969). The 1970s: (1971) -- (1971) -- (1972) -- The (1973) -- A (1976) -- (1976) -- (1976) -- (1977) -- (1978) -- (1979) -- (1979). The 1980s: The (1980) -- (1980) -- The (1981) -- (1982) -- (1982) -- The (1982) -- (1983) -- The (1984) -- (1984) -- The (1985) -- (1985) -- (1988) -- The (1989) -- (1989) -- The (1989). The 1990s: A (1990) -- (1990) -- (1990) -- (1990) -- (1991) -- (1992) -- (1993) -- (1994) -- (1995) -- (1995) -- (1995) -- (1995) -- The (1997) -- The (1997) -- (1998) -- (1999) -- (1999) -- A (1999) -- (1999) -- (1999). The 2000s: (2002) -- (2000) -- (2000) -- (2001) -- The (2001) -- The (2001) -- The (2001) -- (2002) -- A (2003) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2005) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2003) -- (2004) -- (2005) -- (2005) -- (2006). (2006) -- (2006) -- (2006) -- (2006) -- (2007) -- (2008) -- The (2003) --

A comprehensive collection of the author's nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

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Gordimer, Nadine


Women authors, South African--20th century

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