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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(8), pp. 157-167, August, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.046 Review Activism and Narrative Techniques in Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
G.Sankar, Assistant Professor
Department of English, Vel Tech Dr.RR & Dr.SR Technical University, Avadi-Chennai-600062, India. E-mail: vijaya.sankar028@gmail.com
Accepted 7 August 2014
The great women
novelist in Commonwealth period who is Nadine Gordimer, her novel The
Conservationist was a joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974. As a
critic remark in the Observer (quoted on the back flap of the text),
“The author of this gravel beautiful book has transcended her
considerable talent and produced one of those rare works of imaginative
literature that command the special respect reserved for artistic daring
and fulfilled ambition. Gordimer has earned herself a place among the
few novelists who really matter. The Conservationist reads as if it had
to be written.” The narrative strategy of the novel is complex, and
involves an equivocal treatment of the prediction of political change,
the nature of a benighted white consciousness and the idea of
conservative. The central protagonist of the novel, Mehring’s, the white
'colonizer', is not the narrator. The novelist introduced different kind
of Narrative technique and activist thoughts. that is why the novel is
called Activist novel in the field of Literature or work of art with the
literariness of Nadine Gordimer’s
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