A Sport of Nature
 First edition (South Africa) | |
| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | David Phillip (SA) Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | South Africa |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
Plot
[edit]While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela".[1] Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[2][3] She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious President of Kenya.[3]
Reception
[edit]In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, "A Sport of Nature" was described as "[her] most hazardous undertaking."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Maureen Howard (3 May 1987). "The Rise of Hillela, The Fall of South Africa". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (22 April 1987). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ a b Gray, Paul (6 April 1987). "Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE". Time. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ Wästberg, Per (26 April 2001). "Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
Further reading
[edit]- Henley, Ann (1992). ""Space for Herself": Nadine Gordimer's "A Sport of Nature" and Josephine Humphreys' "Rich in Love"". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 13 (1): 81–89. doi:10.2307/3346946. ISSN 0160-9009.
- smyer, Richard (1 March 1992). "A Sport of Nature: Gordimer's Work in Progress". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 27 (1): 71–86. doi:10.1177/002198949202700108. ISSN 0021-9894.
- Snitow, Ann (30 May 1987). "A sport of nature". The Nation. 244. Retrieved 8 February 2025 – via Gale.
- Weinhouse, Linda (1990). "The Deconstruction of Victory: Gordimer's "A Sport of Nature"". Research in African Literatures. 21 (2): 91–100. ISSN 0034-5210.
- Wenzel, M. (3 May 1993). "Gordimer's rendition of the picaresque in A Sport of Nature". Literator. 14 (1): 47–64. doi:10.4102/lit.v14i1.689. ISSN 2219-8237.
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