By “the Flash of Fireflies”: Multi-Focal Forms of Critique in Nadine Gordimer’s Late Short Story Cycles
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Nadine Gordimer’s late short stories in Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Loot use a fragmentary, non-linear form to depict their contemporary society as a multi-temporal present that is haunted by its colonial past. By blending different narrative modes, including moral fable, political allegory and social realism, the stories engage with the injustices of a capitalist world-system in post-apartheid South Africa that are manifested simultaneously across different temporal and geographical scales.
Source: Commonwealth Essays and Studies
DOI: 10.4000/ces.435
Author: Vivek Santayana
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2991542264