Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks ?
Nadine Gordimer, the white South African novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1991, wrote against apartheid in novels such as Burger's Daughter and July's People and joined…
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Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks ?
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Nadine Gordimer, the white South African novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1991, wrote against apartheid in novels such as Burger's Daughter and July's People and joined the African National Congress. Jean Rhys, a white Creole from Dominica, wrote about race and colonial displacement in Wide Sargasso Sea, but her sympathy centres on the outcast Creole woman rather than on the cause of Black people. Margaret Drabble and Muriel Spark are known chiefly for novels of British middle-class life.
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