Interculturalism in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981) and My Son’s Story (1990)

Abstract

This study of Nadine Gordimer‘s fictional works investigates her vision of intercultural socieities where individuality, freedom and equality are entertained. Gordimer has long been convinced that majority rule in South Africa is inevitable, no matter how long and costly the struggle to achieve that future. The main premise upon which this study is based is that any prospect of the country‘s ruling white

minority finding a place in that future depends on them building a common culture with their black compatriots, a culture that would bring the two together, as opposed to their enforced separation under apartheid. The researcher investigates interculturalism firstly as a concept and then as a phenomenon in Nadine Gordimer‘s fictional world represented in July’s People and My Son’s Story and other essays. To attain this, the researcher adopts the interdisciplinary approach including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, ethnicities, racism, and so on. The researcher tries to find out how Gordimer, in her attempt to contest apartheid ideologies and to structure a new non-racial identity for her society, offers interculturalism as a solution to her