《一个士兵的拥抱》英语论文.docVIP

1. Introduction Nadine Gordimer is a white author who lives in the country of South Africa. She is known for her excellent characters and the vivid details of her books. Her stories are written in the context of her South African experiences. She also writes about the previous challenges South Africa met under apartheid, at a time when society was split by race. She has written a large number of novels, Gordimer’s subject matters have been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans and the moral and psychological tensions of life in a racially-divided country, which she often wrote about by focusing on oppressed non-white characters. Gordimer explains many aspects of this problem in South Africa with her A Soldier’s Embrace. Many writers and critics in China have done some research on Gordimer. Critics applaud Gordimer’s authentic portrayals of South African experience, and believe that her fiction has given the world an understanding of the horrible racism in her country.Hu Zhongqing argued“[Gordimer] reveals fully subconsciousness in the depth of black people’s heart and oppressive metamorphic desire, which makes reader detect black in straitened circumstances under apartheid system”(Hu, 2007:177). Qu Shijing has divided Gordimer’s writings into two sections and made the conclusion that“ Gordimer’s outlook on arts is also her political perspective and outlook on life”(Qu,1998:156-160). Critics abroad are more than those in China. Gordimer’s orientation toward a non-racial or hybrid culture specific to South Africa is often admired. Stephen Clingman is the most typical representative in this respect. In his view,“Gordimer is firmly part of developing non-racial culture in South Africa”(Clingman,1993:xxxiv). And “at its broadest her struggle as a novelist lies in progressing towards a new, integrated South African culture of the future”(Clingman,1993:4). In more radical views, Kathrin Wagner criticizes Gordimer as dealing with“the issue of pos