Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter A Casebook [Paperback]

South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel,Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer on the novel, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a bibliography.

1. Introduction
2. 'A Story for this Place and Time': An Interview with Nadine Gordimer aboutBurger's Daughter,Susan Gardner
3. Waiting for Revolution,Conor Cruise O'Brien
4. The Subject of Revolution,Stephen R. Clingman
5. Leaving the Mother's House,John Cooke
6. Prospero's Complex: Race and Sex inBurger's Daughter,Judie Newman
7. Nadine Gordimer,The Degeneration of the Great South African Lie
8.Burger's Daughter,The Synthesis of Revelation
9. What the Book is About,Nadine Gordimer
10. Still Waiting for the Great Feminist Novel,Susan Gardner
11.Burger's Daughter: Lighting a Torch in the Heart of Darkness,Lorraine Liscio
12. Exiled In and Exiled From: The Politics and Poetics ofBurger's Daughter,Louise Yelin
13. Selected Bibliography

Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham.