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Alice Walker stands as one of the most significant contemporary black American women writers and a pioneering literary figure. Her focus in her poetry, essays, short stories, novels, documentaries and feature films has been on feminist issues within the black community. She has also been a courageous spokesperson on issues that affect women worldwide, particularly male oppression through female circumcision. She has won many literary awards, including the ...
Nadine Gordimer is the winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature. Her works, spanning more than five decades, relentlessly expose the traumas and tensions of apartheid in South Africa. My Son's Story (1990) marks a shift in her focus from concern with the role of whites in a sharply polarized society to the experience of those on the other side of the colour bar. Her study of the psychological dilemmas faced by a coloured family and the heavy price ...
August Strindberg (1849-1912) ranks as one of the great master of modern European drama and a major influence on many innovative writers of the twentieth century. His varied and prolific writings encompass a vast range of styles from naturalism and symbolism to expressionism and even a kind of surrealism in his “dream†plays. Miss Julie (1888) belongs to Strindberg’s naturalistic period in which his own violent conflicts and anxieties about class and sexual ...