• Noor Hussain

This paper attempts to study the reflection of apartheid and its resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s novel, A World of Strangers. It focuses on the racial segregation and its impact on the South African life in the apartheid regime. The critical method in this study is influenced by the postcolonial critic Homi Bhabha. Unlike Frantz Fanon, Bhabha does not see the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized simply in terms of the self and the Other. He argues that their relationship or identity is not fixed or stable. He asserts that all cultures are impure and hybrid. In his book, The Location of Culture, he examines issues like ‘border lives’, cultural difference and colonial oppression which can be used to analyze Gordimer’s fiction and resistance against apartheid. Apartheid can be said to be a continuity of the colonial set up of dividing the people in different groups and zones. This has led to physical and psychological borders in South African society. Gordimer depicts this condition of life through her characters’ marginality and psychological alienation that they suffer in the apartheid regime. The paper will also discuss how Gordimer tries to offer resistance against the apartheid.

Bhabha, apartheid, border, resistance, Gordimer

"A World of Strangers: Revisiting the Apartheid", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.620-626, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y16.pdf

"A World of Strangers: Revisiting the Apartheid", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp620-626, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y16.pdf