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“A Story for This Place and Time” An Interview with Nadine Gordimer about Burger’s Daughter

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Abstract In July 1980 Susan gardner sought an interview in Johan-nesburg with Nadine Gordimer to discuss her 1979 novel, Burser’s Daushter. This was banned for import and distribution in South Africa one month after its London publication on a range of grounds specified in the Publications Act of 1974, including propagating Communist opinions; indecency and offensiveness to public morals and religious feelings or convictions of some inhabitants of South Africa; being prejudicial to the safety of the state, the general welfare, peace, and good order; creating “a psychosis of revolution and rebellion”; and making “several unbridled attacks against the authority entrusted with the maintenance of law and order and the safety of the state.
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Title: “A Story for This Place and Time” An Interview with Nadine Gordimer about Burger’s Daughter
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Abstract In July 1980 Susan gardner sought an interview in Johan-nesburg with Nadine Gordimer to discuss her 1979 novel, Burser’s Daushter.
This was banned for import and distribution in South Africa one month after its London publication on a range of grounds specified in the Publications Act of 1974, including propagating Communist opinions; indecency and offensiveness to public morals and religious feelings or convictions of some inhabitants of South Africa; being prejudicial to the safety of the state, the general welfare, peace, and good order; creating “a psychosis of revolution and rebellion”; and making “several unbridled attacks against the authority entrusted with the maintenance of law and order and the safety of the state.

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