Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel
July's People
(1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity.
This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers:
an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of
a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on
, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical survey
cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
suggestions for further reading.
Part of the
Routledge Guides to Literature
series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of
and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.