Syeda Faiqa Mazhar’s academic journey has gone through many
transitional phases. She achieved an M.A. degree in English
Language and Literature to add to her M.Phil./Ph.D. research
studies. During this phase of life, she discovered her passion
for post-colonial literary discourses. This led to exploring
themes of race, borderland, and identity with an exclusive focus
on Nobel laureate South African writer Nadine Gordimer’s
fiction. This book is an outcome of Dr. Mazhar’s post-doctoral
project conceived and researched during her Visiting Research
Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School
of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom.
Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature...
