ENG 493J GORDIMER & COETZEE:NOVEL/HIST

A comparative study of major works by Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee, with emphasis on their early and middle periods. Special attention to critical essays by each writer about the other, as well as issues of shared historical and literary concern. Topics include the role of the public intellectual in Apartheid-era South Africa and the relationship between politics and form.