Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter

Burger''s Daughter the seventh novel of South African writer Nadine Gordimer focuses upon the daughter of a white communist Afrikaner hero thus encapsulating the warring conditioning forces in South Africa of race sex and class position. 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 classic and recent critical essays an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception and a bibliography. reception and a bibliography.