ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nadine Gordimer, Group Areas Act, Speculative Fiction
17 Apr 2016
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Coninual involvement on behalf of literature and free speech in a police state where censorship of books and people exist have made her the doyenne of south africa . Gordimer writes with intense immediacy about the complicated personal and social relaionships in her environment etc. Gordimer vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law . Apart-hood or a state of being apart or separate . Naives land act of 1913: irst segregaion law passed by union parliament - only 10-13% of land could be owned by naives. Populaion registraion act (1950): every sa had to be classiied into one of the populaion groups . Reservaions of separate ameniies (1953): premises, vehicles, services segregated by race. Mines and work act: established colour bar pracices that allowed whites to monopolize jobs. Black building act/bantu building workers act: blacks not allowed to do skilled labour in white homes. Prohibiion of mixed marriages act, immortality act etc.
