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Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer's works: the uniqueness of terror in a difficult historical period, the desire to annihilate racial oppression, and, above all, the psychological alienation provoked by racism. The analysis also focuses on literary topics that are specific to Gordimer's post-Apartheid writings, such as the significance of multiculturalism, the status of writers, the banalisation of violence due to mass-media coverage, the reconciliation with a violent past, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, economic exile, and migration. The book proposes in five chapters a journey into Nadine Gordimer's novels, short stories and non-fiction that presents the reader with a multifaceted Other who is no longer specific to postcolonial and multicultural South Africa but can be identified across the globe as alterity is redefined by globalization.

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Maria-Luiza Caraivan is Associate Professor at ""Tibiscus"" University, Timișoara, Romania. She has a BS in English, an MA in British and American Studies and a PhD in English Literature from the University of the West, Timișoara, Romania. Her main areas of interest are English literature, South African literature and culture, gender studies, language teaching, and the business environment. Her publications include Writing for Business and Comunicarea in Afaceri [Business Communication – a Course for University Students]. She has contributed to numerous literary journals and edited collections with articles and essays such as ""Cultural Tourism: The Case of the Banat Region"", ""South African Speculative Fiction"", ""The Story of a South African Romance"", ""'Every real story is a never ending story': History and Politics in Children's Novels"", and ""Nadine Gordimer: Writing Beyond Apartheid"".

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