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Racial Discrimination in Nadine Gordimer’s
A Sport of Nature and The Pickup

M. Mallika, M.A., M.Phil.


Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer

Abstract

Nadine Gordimer, the African Nobel Laureate for 1991 represents the multicultural reality of South Africa as she herself is an heir to more than one cultural tradition. Gordimer’s novels offer an insight into the most crucial period of South Africa’s history. Her writing career ran parallel to the era of apartheid in South Africa. A majority of Gordimer’s works are variations on racial conflict and this conflict transposed from observation to a psychological level that leaves both blacks and whites uncertain about their position. The paper is entitled “Racial Discrimination in Nadine Gordimer’s A Sport of Nature and The Pickup”. Gordimer’s ninth novel, A Sport of Nature deals with her native land and with the emerging black leadership of surrounding states and with the ways in which human beings survive physically, emotionally and morally under a struggle against racism and injustice. As a novel of cultural transition, The Pickup reflects power shifts in private and public domain through a chance encounter between Julie, the privileged daughter of investment banker and Abdu, an Arab mechanic who allows the author to examine immigration and cultural conflict. Thus racial misunderstanding is loudly pronounced in Gordimer’s different novels. As a committed writer, Gordimer’s interpretive function that determines her policy of representation stems from her anti-colonial ideology.

Racial Discrimination in Nadine Gordimer’s A Sport of Nature and The Pickup

African literature in the late colonial period showed themes of liberation, independence, and (among Africans in French-controlled territories) negritude. In 1948, the National Party gained power in South Africa. It was all-white government immediately enforcing existing legal policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation that it called apartheid. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘separateness’ or ‘separate development’. Separate development was primarily based on land; the long conflict between Africans and whites was settled with the military defeat of the Africans. Hence- forth land would be unilaterally allocated by a white government representing white interests. The official evidence underlying apartheid was that South African people were stiffly divided into “Whites,” (all Europeans) “Blacks,” “Coloureds” (people of mixed race) and “Asians” (Indians and Pakistanis who had been brought to South Africa as labourers). Nelson Mandela defines apartheid:
Apartheid is the embodiment of the racialism, repression and inhumanity of all previous white supremacist regimes. To see the real face of apartheid we must look beneath the veil of constitutional formulas, deceptive phrases and playing with words. (SML 190)

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M. Mallika, M.A., M.Phil.
Department of English
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