“LIVING IN A FRONTIERLESS LAND” NADINE GORDIMER AND CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
“LIVING IN A FRONTIERLESS LAND” NADINE GORDIMER AND CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer, was for over four decades overdetermined by the South African context of apartheid. However, in recent years, she has started to take a more involved interest in cultural globalization, in what she refers to as “living on a frontierless land” (1999: 207). Starting with Gordimer’s own rhetorical question – “How, in national specificity, does each country go about moving beyond itself to procreate a culture that benefits self and others?” (1999: 212 ) – in this paper, I shall analyse new tendencies in Gordimer’s more recent fiction.

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