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- catalog abstract ""Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadin Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure - an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers everywhere. Including her reminiscences of Nelson Mandela and Gunter Grass, her correspondence with the Japanese novelist Kenzabu Oe, and her reflections on race in Africa and America, these passionate writings lay bare the preoccupations of a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11364397.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadin Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure - an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers everywhere. Including her reminiscences of Nelson Mandela and Gunter Grass, her correspondence with the Japanese novelist Kenzabu Oe, and her reflections on race in Africa and America, these passionate writings lay bare the preoccupations of a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244).".
- catalog description "One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions / Salmon Rushdie: Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics -- Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? -- Turning the page: African writers and the twenty-first century -- References: Codes of culture -- Lion, the bull, and the tree -- Gunter Grass -- Dialogue of late afternoon -- Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of empire and exile -- Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer -- How shall we look at each other then? / Mongane Wally Serote: 1959: What is Apartheid? -- How not to know the African -- Morning in the library: 1975 -- Heroes and villains -- Crack the nut: Future between your teeth -- How shall we look at each other then? -- 29 October 1989 -- Beautiful day, Com -- Mandela: What he means to us -- First time -- Act two: One year later -- Essential document -- As others see us -- Labour well the teeming earth -- Ceaseless adventure / Jawaharlal Nehru: Writer's imagination and the imagination of the state -- Writing and being -- Living on a frontierless land: Cultural globalization -- Our century.".
- catalog extent "viii, 244 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374189919 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0374527520 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog subject "823 21".
- catalog subject "Ethics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Gordimer, Nadine Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history South Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and morals History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PR9369.3.G6 Z468 1999".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature South Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions / Salmon Rushdie: Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics -- Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? -- Turning the page: African writers and the twenty-first century -- References: Codes of culture -- Lion, the bull, and the tree -- Gunter Grass -- Dialogue of late afternoon -- Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of empire and exile -- Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer -- How shall we look at each other then? / Mongane Wally Serote: 1959: What is Apartheid? -- How not to know the African -- Morning in the library: 1975 -- Heroes and villains -- Crack the nut: Future between your teeth -- How shall we look at each other then? -- 29 October 1989 -- Beautiful day, Com -- Mandela: What he means to us -- First time -- Act two: One year later -- Essential document -- As others see us -- Labour well the teeming earth -- Ceaseless adventure / Jawaharlal Nehru: Writer's imagination and the imagination of the state -- Writing and being -- Living on a frontierless land: Cultural globalization -- Our century.".
- catalog title "Living in hope and history : notes from our century / Nadine Gordimer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".