My Son's Story

This present edition of My Son's Story is a handbook for students and scholars alike. It provides exhaustive annotations and comprehensive commentary of the text, along with a collection of critical essays by eminent scholars, all pertinent to this specific novel. From Stephen Clingman's pioneering criticism on Gordimer, defending her European liberal Humanist stand and hailing her as the recorder of the inner history of South African Apartheid to Lilliane Louvel and Susan Greenstein's defending the textual anomalies as novelistic techniques, from Nancy T. Bazin and Jorshinelle Sonza's feminist points of view and Thomas Cartelli's literal reading of debunking Shakespearean authority in the text to Kathrin Wagner's incisive post-colonial critique of the novel, this edition has tackled the text from all possible avenues.This edition also provides information on the context of the novel, both political and historical, to facilitate a critically aware reading. Select Bibliography provides useful information for scholars who wish to further pursue their readings on South African literature in general and Nadine Gordimer in particular.