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Literature Matters: Anti-Apartheid Activism in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter
Posted on 2025-11-26 in Arts & Culture, Students & Campus Life
Jan 28, 2026
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 28
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Grace-Westminster United Church Social Hall, 505-10th St. E., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
This talk focuses on South African writer and activist Nadine Gordimer’s 1979 novel Burger’s Daughter. Set in South Africa during the apartheid era of the 1970s, the novel presents a nuanced conversation between factual reality and emotional experience through an alternating use of subjective and objective narrative perspectives. This dual structure functions as a literary device but also as a political strategy, enabling Gordimer to explore the complex landscape of anti-apartheid activism by white South Africans.
Literature Matters: Literature in the Community is a free public lecture series sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Department of English.
Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca
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