Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordimer's prose, brutal in its precision and sensuousness, conveys Rosa's struggle with an immediacy that makes detachment impossible. She bombards us with images harsh and lush; passion for the country whose policies she hates scorches the pages, evoking South Africa's beauty, sordidness and terror. She moves from the overripe living room of an apartheid apologist to the stinking hut in a black township, from the lucid vigor of South Africa to the luxury of the Rivieva. Her prose mimics the near-cryptic, emotionally loaded economy of poetry, with all its symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost...
...donkey's silent writhing drives Rosa from her country. The beating captures in one unbearable moment the essence of South Africa for Rosa Burger--her implication as a white in blacks' suffering. As a white spectator, she is powerless to stop the donkey's suffering or those of the blacks in her country...
Rosa's frustration is the white man's burden in South Africa. Their guilt, anger and fear creates an emotional chasm between races far more disturbing than the state-imposed physical separation. Blacks reject the whites who rejected them, and both are disenfranchised...
...black university uncontrolled by the government, Soni said, "would attact South Africa's best black brains and develop education to our needs, not to what the system wants us to learn...
...Soni says students' skepticism of the morality of Harvard's investments in corporations and banks active in South Africa show some observance of principles and morality...