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    black woman hood at a time where both being a black girl and a black woman was not as welcomed. 2 Lovers and To Be A Black Girl Nadine Gordimer was born into a well-off family in Springs‚ Transvaal‚ an East

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    Nadine Gordimer’s “The Moment before the Gun Went Off‚” at face-value‚ is an obvious critique of the Apartheid situation that occurred in South Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. Her use of a biased narrator helps portray this concept easily. What is less obvious‚ until the twist ending‚ is that she is also making a point about how easy it is for people to rush to judgment without having all of the facts. Upon revealing that the man who was shot (Lucas) is actually the illegitimate

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    COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS OF: COUNTRY LOVERS BY NADINE GORDIMER (1976) AND WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GIRL (FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T) BY PATRICIA SMITH (1991) SHARON DEVINE-POOLE ENG 125: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE INSTRUCTOR: MARY LOUISE PHILLIPS BECKER NOVEMBER 27TH‚ 2011 THESIS Although the similarities aren’t quite the same they still have the same concept. I will compare and analyze these two writings in which one is a short story‚ and the other is expressive poetry. I chose these two particular

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    most everyone ’s childhood. When Nadine Gordimer was asked to write a children ’s story‚ she replied with a short story titled "Once Upon A Time". Although the title is characteristic of a fairy tale‚ she leads the tale to an ending that is anything other than "…happily ever after." Gordimer distorts the fairy tale by dealing with certain issues rather than giving the reader the usual fairy tale characteristics. Three of the more significant issues Gordimer likes to deal with in her story are

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    Alice Walker’s “The Welcome Table” VS Nadine Gordimer’s “Country Lovers” ENG125 Macy Dailey April 24‚ 2013 Alice Walker’s “The Welcome Table” VS Nadine Gordimer’s “Country Lovers” There was a time when racial and ethical issues were far more detrimental to one’s life than they are today. In the short stories “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer they tell of life during that time. Both authors were women born during a time

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    Africa Emergent by Nadine Gordimer A better understanding of literary theory can be gained by investigating the etymology of the word theory itself. Literary theory‚ then‚ offers to us a view of life‚ an understanding of why we interpret texts the way we do. A well-articulated literary theory also assumes that an innocent reading of a text or a sheerly emotional or spontaneous reaction to a work does not exist because literary theory questions the assumptions‚ beliefs‚ and feelings of readers

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    Have you ever experienced discrimination and/or racism? It is my belief that‚ sadly‚ most of us have; for this paper I have chosen to compare and contrast the literary works‚ “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker‚ and “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer. Both of these literary pieces give the reader awareness of the pain and suffering endured by the two African-American characters that were subject to racial discrimination and the superior mentality of those that participated in the discrimination

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    artistic intentions‚ providing an imagined experience yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life” (Arp 745). In “Once upon a Time”‚ Nadine Gordimer uses a unique combination of both interpretive and escapist literature styles to portray a message that there is no way to absolutely guarantee a person’s safety. Although Nadine Gordimer does use some elements of the escapist literature style to develop this piece of fiction‚ the story is primarily interpretive literature. Arp and Johnson

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    Once Upon a Time is a bedtime story to children in which the author takes critical steps to show and bring the reader into the life of the unknown. The author of the passage gives the short story in fine pinpoint details that she gave off the fact that this has happened to her. In the passage she describes a family of which is in great fear of the surrounding area people of color. She depicts a joyous lifestyle that this family is living but of which the fear of the unknown involuntarily kills their

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    Laura Riazzi 30 September 2009 A.P. English Literature and Composition 12 Mr. Lane “Once Upon a Time” Literary Analysis “Once Upon a Time” is a reverse fantasy story written by Nadine Gordimer. The concept of a reverse fantasy is a tale that one expects to end happily ever after but has a plot twist where the ending is cruel or injust. The structure of this story begins as the narrator writes that they are asked to contribute to an anthology of children’s literature. The next moment‚ while

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