@import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/misc/drupal.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/themes/review/default.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/themes/review/default.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/themes/review/arabesques.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/modules/img_assist/img_assist.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/modules/taxonomy_dhtml/menuExpandable3.css"; @import "http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/themes/review/style.css"; Current Guidelines Classifieds ... Contact Us Enter your search terms Submit search form Home Books Reviews Nadine Gordimer: Denouncing Apartheid, the South African Voice of Consciousness One of the most challenging literary events of the last decade which took place in Athens was undoubtedly the lecture of Nadine Gordimer. It was a memorable experience to hear this tiny, silver haired lady speak with a soft but steady voice of some of her countryâs unsolved problems: analphabetism and semi-alphabetism, poverty, racism, the transition from the racist regime to the democratic state, about those done during the last ten years of democratic government and above all for those yet to be done, which she described as âexisting and as unpleasant as a hangover after a heavy drunkennessâ. The leading South African writer - and one of worldâs famous atheists - wrote her first narrative at nine. She became aware of the inhuman exploitation of the Black People from the White ones from an early age. âThere is one thing I am sure of: racism is wrongâ. She did her duty as a citizen. Being white, and a woman, she always felt she had special responsibilities. Denouncing Apartheid in her books was one of them, along with letting the world know of the catastrophical consequences of the racial discriminations system to the lives of the people. She was rewarded for having been the Geiger Counter of Apartheid for fifty years with the Nobel Prize in 1991. | |
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