Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Burgers_Daughter> ?p ?o }
- Burgers_Daughter abstract "Burger's Daughter is an historical and political novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was expected to be banned in South Africa, and a month after publication in London the import and sale of the book in South Africa was prohibited by the Publications Control Board. Three months later, the Publications Appeal Board overturned the banning and the restrictions were lifted.Burger's Daughter details a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa seeking to overthrow the South African government. It is set in the mid-1970s, and follows the life of Rosa, the title character, as she comes to terms with her father Lionel Burger's legacy as an activist in the South African Communist Party (SACP). The perspective shifts between Rosa's internal monologue (often directed towards her father or her lover Conrad), and the omniscient narrator. The novel is rooted in the history of the anti-apartheid struggle and references to actual events and people from that period, including Nelson Mandela and the 1976 Soweto uprising.Gordimer herself was involved in South African struggle politics, and she knew many of the activists, including Bram Fischer, Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer. She modelled the Burger family in the novel loosely on Fischer's family, and described Burger's Daughter as "a coded homage" to Fischer. While banned in South Africa, a copy of the book was smuggled into Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, and he reported that he "thought well of it".The novel was generally well-received by critics. A reviewer for The New York Times said that Burger's Daughter is Gordimer's "most political and most moving novel", and a review in The New York Review of Books described the style of writing as "elegant", "fastidious" and belonging to a "cultivated upper class". A critic in The Hudson Review had mixed feelings about the book, saying that it "gives scarcely any pleasure in the reading but which one is pleased to have read nonetheless". Burger's Daughter won the Central News Agency Literary Award in 1980.".
- Burgers_Daughter author Nadine_Gordimer.
- Burgers_Daughter isbn "978-0-224-01690-2".
- Burgers_Daughter literaryGenre Historical_fiction.
- Burgers_Daughter literaryGenre Political_fiction.
- Burgers_Daughter numberOfPages "364".
- Burgers_Daughter oclc "5834280".
- Burgers_Daughter thumbnail Nadine_Gordimer_01.JPG?width=300.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=0Dcc9Lmwn1IC.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=IFx6JOw9QjsC&pg=PA72.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=KvFfOQFIeO8C&pg=PA126.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=YLa8QgAACAAJ.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=h4X8g4LEUeYC.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=hD-adL-aL3wC&pg=PA18.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=imeiOwAACAAJ.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=jGFje8JWmN8C&pg=PA167.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=jGFje8JWmN8C&pg=PA81.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink manichean-aesthetics-the-politics-of-literature-in.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink talk-fiction-literature-and-the-talk-explosion.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink books?id=3iibMu0Qjs8C&pg=PA187.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink feminism-bakhtin-and-the-dialogic.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink from-the-margins-of-empire-christina-stead-doris.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageExternalLink postcolonial-african-writers-a-bio-bibliographical.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageID "7950296".
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageLength "54631".
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageOutDegree "110".
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageRevisionID "679293699".
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink 1946_African_Mine_Workers_Union_strike.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink 1956_Treason_Trial.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink 1976_in_South_Africa.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Advocate.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink African_National_Congress.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Afrikaans.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Afrikaner.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Anthony_Sampson.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Apartheid.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Apartment.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Apostrophe_(figure_of_speech).
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Association_of_American_Publishers.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Bildungsroman.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Black_Consciousness_Movement.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Bram_Fischer.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:1979_novels.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Apartheid_novels.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Historical_novels.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jonathan_Cape_books.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Novels_by_Nadine_Gordimer.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Novels_set_in_Johannesburg.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_novels.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Central_News_Agency_Literary_Award.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Characterization.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Coming-of-age_story.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Conor_Cruise_OBrien.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Dartmouth_College.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Delmas_Treason_Trial.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Drum_(South_African_magazine).
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Emory_University.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink File:NadineGordimer_BurgersDaughter_inscribed.jpg.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink First-person_narrative.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Kermode.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink George_Packer.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Gillian_Slovo.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Given_name.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Heinrich_Böll.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Historical_fiction.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Internal_monologue.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Internal_resistance_to_South_African_apartheid.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Internal_resistance_to_apartheid.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Iris_Murdoch.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Ivan_Turgenev.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Joe_Slovo.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink John_Dugard.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink John_Fowles.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Cape.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Epstein_(writer).
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Nadine_Gordimer.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Narration.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Narrative_mode.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink National_Party_(South_Africa).
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Nelson_Mandela.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink New_Internationalist.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Nice.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Nobel_Prize_in_Literature.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Née.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink PEN_International.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Theroux.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Physical_therapy.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Political_fiction.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Questia_Online_Library.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Quotation_mark.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Rivonia_Trial.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Robben_Island.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Ruth_First.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Salmagundi_(magazine).
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Sharpeville_massacre.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink Sounding_board.
- Burgers_Daughter wikiPageWikiLink South_African_Communist_Party.