LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Discriminated Even in Death:
Blacks in Nadine Gordimer’s “Six Feet of the Country”

Gulab Singh, Ph.D.
Divija Kumari, Ph.D.

Gordimer’s Short Stories

Gordimer’s short stories at once capture the interest of the readers and transport them into the South African way of life. As Clingman holds, “Gordimer’s short stories, while often rooted in an identifiable social world, turn in general on human intricacies of a psychological or emotional nature….” (Head 162). Usually Gordimer’s short stories focus on a single concern and generally she picks up just one thread from the pattern of life of South Africa. But some stories address more than one problem concurrently. “Six Feet of the Country” (1956) is one such story, which takes up multifarious issues related to apartheid in South Africa. Perhaps it is for this very reason that Head considers this story as “one of Gordimer’s best stories” (Head 172).

Exploring the Theme of Maltreatment of Blacks

Gordimer has repeatedly and tirelessly explored the theme of maltreatment of blacks in her fiction. Through her writing, she has laid bare all sorts of discriminations against the blacks in their day to day life. Through her story, “Six Feet of the Country,” she has made efforts to expose the inconsiderateness of the whites in authority, who become an instrument of discrimination against blacks, even after their death. The blacks, as the story suggests, are denied even six feet of the country, for burial at the hands of their relatives.

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Gulab Singh, Ph.D.
Dean Faculty of Arts and Languages
BPSM University
Khanpur Kalan (Sonepat) 131305
Haryana
India
gulabchillar@gmail.com

Divija Kumari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Government P.G. College
Adampur (Hisar) 125052
Haryana
India
divija_kumari@yahoo.in
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