Nadine Gordimer 1991 Apartheid A system of legal racial segregation enforced by the government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 under which the rights of the majority nonwhite inhabitants of South Africa were reduced and ID: 587145
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“Once Upon A Time”
Nadine
Gordimer
1991Slide2
Apartheid
A system
of legal racial segregation enforced by the government in South Africa
between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were reduced and
minority rule by white people was
maintained.Slide3
Apartheid
L
egislation classified inhabitants into
racial groups
Black
White
Colored
Indian
TOWNSHIPS: residential
areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals.
The
government segregated
education,
medical care, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.Slide4Slide5
Nadine
Gordimer
Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents.
Her
father's experience as a Jewish refugee in czarist Russia helped form
Gordimer's
political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic toward the experiences of black people under apartheid.
Conversely
,
Gordimer
saw activism by her mother, who showed concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa.Slide6
Ms.
Gordimer with Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, in Johannesburg in 2005. Credit
Radu Sigheti/ReutersSlide7
Gordimer
, Cont’d
During the 1960s and 1970s, she continued to live in Johannesberg
,
although she occasionally left for short periods of time to teach at several universities in the
USA.
Nobel Prize: 1991
She
had begun to achieve international literary recognition,
and continued
to demand through both her writing and her activism that South Africa re-examine and replace its long held policy of
apartheid.Slide8Slide9
Activate Prior Knowledge
List all the fairy tales you can think of.
Do you have a favorite fairy tale? What is it?What elements are common to all fairy tales?
Consider:
Types of characters
Settings (time, place)
Conflicts
Other?Slide10
Common Elements of Fairy Tales
Do NOT need to include fairies.
Set in the past—usually significantly long ago. May be presented as historical fact from the past.
Include fantasy, supernatural or make-believe aspects.
Typically incorporate clearly defined good characters and evil characters.
Involves magic elements, which may be magical people, animals, or objects. Magic may be positive or negative.
May include objects, people, or events in threes.
Focus the plot on a problem or conflict that needs to be solved.
Often have happy endings, based on the resolution of the conflict or problem.
Usually teach a lesson or demonstrate values important to the culture. Slide11
Synthesize
What connections between themes and motifs in “The Help” and “Once Upon A Time” can be made?Slide12
Analysis Questions
Find two examples in the story when the author foreshadows its resolution.
Analyze why
Gordimer
presents elements of fairy tales in “Once Upon A Time.”
Analyze two quotes from the short story that allude to the practice of the system apartheid.
Summarize the literal and allegorical meaning of this story.
How and why does
Gordimer
use archetypes in this story?Slide13
Analysis Questions
How are each of the characters presented by Gordimer?
What are the major motifs Gordimer uses in the short story?