Nadine Gordimer 2018 - 2018 Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Stories

This international conference seeks to offer new perspectives on Nadine Gordimer’s collection of short stories Jump and Other Stories, published in 1991, the year Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Contributors are invited to adopt a variety of approaches that will illuminate the main themes, narrative strategies, literary traditions, modes of writing, generic traits, structural principles and any other component of the collection. We encourage contributors to take into account the whole collection rather than individual stories. Proposals may focus on, but are not restricted to, the following topics:
home and homecoming
politics and poetics
post-apartheid literature
specificity of the genre of the short story
violence
polyphony / multivocality
silence and the unsaid
Nadine Gordimer as an “interpreter of South Africa” (Clingman)
self-reflexivity
fragmentation vs unity
vulnerability
the local and the global
the ex-centric
the private and the public
animality
horror and irony