THE FAILURE OF LIBERALISM IN NADINE GORDIMER’S OCCASION FOR LOVING

Cătălin TECUCIANU

THE FAILURE OF LIBERALISM IN NADINE GORDIMER’S OCCASION FOR LOVING

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Cătălin TECUCIANU¹

¹ PhD Candidate, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași

Corresponding author: [email protected]

Accepted 26 March 2026

Available Online 15 November 2014

Abstract

BY THE BEGINNING OF THE 1960S THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE WAS UNDERGOING MAJOR CHANGES WHICH AIMED AT ENFORCING FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON THE BLACK, COLOURED AND INDIAN POPULATION. THERE WERE A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN THE MID-1950S AND EARLY 1960S – OUT OF WHICH TWO STAND OUT AS BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT - THAT HAVE A DIRECT BEARING ON THE RESPONSES OF GORDIMER’S NOVELS FROM THE 1960S. THUS, THE AIM OF THIS PAPER IS TO ANALYZE THE NOVELIST’S FICTIONAL RESPONSE TO THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS AFFECTING SOUTH AFRICA IN THE 1960S AND THE WAY IN WHICH SPACE/PLACE IS NOW SEEN AND REPRESENTED IN OCCASION FOR LOVING (1963).

Keywords

LIBERALISM IDENTITY APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA SPACE

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