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Part of the Birss 2023 Exhibit:
A Celebration of the Works of Nadine Gordimer
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“I tried to read books about South Africa or by South African writers. I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."
Source: Nelson Mandela Foundation, https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/nelson-mandela-foundation-sends-condolences-on-the-passing-of-nadine-gordim
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Freedom Charter Graffiti - written on the wall of the holding cell below the courtroom at the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, South Africa where Mandela and other prisoners in the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964) were held. Courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Freedom and PHParsons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Freedom Charter Graffiti - written on the wall of the holding cell below the courtroom at the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, South Africa where Mandela and other prisoners in the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964) were held. Courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Freedom and PHParsons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
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Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee
Virtual Keynote with
Claire Messud, Robert Boyers, & James Wood
“Writing & Political Activism:
The Work of South African Writer
Nadine Gordimer”
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We'd like to thank our project partners:
The Honors Program at Roger Williams University
The Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington
Salmagundi magazine at Skidmore College
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