Turning the Page: African Writers on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

1992; Indiana University Press; Issue: 56 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2935036

ISSN

0041-1191

Autores

Nadine Gordimer,

Tópico(s)

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Resumo

meanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous with ultimate authority, with prestige, with awesome, sometimes dangerous persuasion, to have Prime Time, a TV talk show, to have the gift of gab as well as that of speaking in tongues. As the twenty-first century approaches, the word flies through space, bounces from satellites, now nearer than it has ever been to the heaven from which it was believed to have come. But its

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