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Article: Rethinking cosmopolitanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist.(Critical essay)
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- June 22, 2006
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Most literature from the apartheid era examines a national identity in crisis, and its reception has highlighted issues of South Africa's unique political development. To apply current theories of cosmopolitanism and their emphasis on internationalism to a novel from the 1970s such as Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist is reading against the grain of the critical consensus, which takes as its focal point the internal situation in South Africa and, as argued by Stephen Clingman in the case of The Conservationist, "the immediate realities to which [the novel] responded in the moment in which it was produced" (1986, 136), My desire is to broaden the discussion of historicity ...
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