Aesthetic Dimensions in Nadine Gordimer's Post-apartheid Short Fiction: The Case of Loot and Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tiwari, Kusha
• Is Part Of: Current writing. Volume 29:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Gordimer -- short stories -- post-apartheid -- aesthetics; Southern African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 820.996805
• DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2017.1287424
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1013-929X

Abstract

Abstract : This article examines Nadine Gordimer's post-apartheid short story collections, Loot and Other Stories and Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black in the light of her artistic capability, expression and innovation. In her non-fiction writings including her Nobel Prize speech, Gordimer talks of the Chekhovian influence on her creative sensibility. This Chekhovian influence is notably visible in her post-apartheid short fiction, in which Gordimer, like Chekhov, disavows moral, structural and thematic finality in the narrative. The stories in these collections prompt debates around the role of a socially motivated writer in contemporary global networks.