July's People is a fascinating novella that probes the psychology turmoil of apartheid in South Africa. The gulf between the lives lived by the white and black population is thrown into stark contrast by the role reversal experienced when the white family find themselves dependent on their "house boy".Cited by: In July’s People, a novel written a decade before that process began, Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer imagines a different ending to apartheid: civil war. Maureen and Bam Smales are a white, liberal Johannesburg couple that, as war breaks out and escape options evaporate, accept the offer of their trusted black servant, July, to seek refuge in his remote home village. · Written before the end of apartheid, July’s People is a projection of the overthrow of the regime of official segregation that defined South Africa during Gordimer’s life at the time. The violence that engulfs the country in the novel at once Author: Nadine Gordimer.
Nadine Gordimer's novel July's People is a fictitious account of a black revolt in South Africa. In the novel the blacks in the South African police force refuse to arrest their own people. Nadine Gordimer is an award winning South African author of multiple books, and has won the prestigious Booker Prize. In July's People, Gordimer writes of the race riots in Johannesburg that wrestled the city out of white control. As the violence begins to escalate and the city begins to crumble, families ponder their future. July's People by Nadine Gordimer examines relations between the black and white races of apartheid South Africa after an urban rebellion has rendered the country ungovernable. A white family's former houseboy offers his employers safe haven and they must learn a new way of living.
July's People is a fascinating novella that probes the psychology turmoil of apartheid in South Africa. The gulf between the lives lived by the white and black population is thrown into stark contrast by the role reversal experienced when the white family find themselves dependent on their "house boy". In July’s People, a novel written a decade before that process began, Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer imagines a different ending to apartheid: civil war. Maureen and Bam Smales are a white, liberal Johannesburg couple that, as war breaks out and escape options evaporate, accept the offer of their trusted black servant, July, to seek refuge in his remote home village. Written before the end of apartheid, July’s People is a projection of the overthrow of the regime of official segregation that defined South Africa during Gordimer’s life at the time. The violence that engulfs the country in the novel at once.
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