| 词条 | July's People |
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| name = July's People | translator = | image = File:JulysPeople.jpg | caption = First edition cover (RSA) | author = Nadine Gordimer | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = South Africa | language = English | genre = Alternate history | publisher = Raven/Taurus (RSA) Jonathan Cape (UK) Viking Press (US) | release_date = 1981 | english_release_date = 1981 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 195 | isbn = 9780747578383 }}July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near future version of South Africa where Apartheid is ended through a civil war.[1] Gordimer wrote the book before the end of apartheid as her prediction of how it would end. The book was notably banned in South Africa after its publication, and later under the post-Apartheid government.[2] PlotThe novel is set during a fictional civil war in which black South Africans have violently overturned the system of apartheid.[3] The story follows the Smales, a liberal White South African family who were forced to flee Johannesburg to the native village of their black servant, July. Maureen tries working with the women in the fields, digging up leaves and roots. Afterward, she goes to see July, who is working on the bakkie. When July says she should not work with the women, she asks if he fears she will tell his wife about Ellen. He angrily asserts that she can only tell Martha that he has always been a good servant. Maureen, frightened, realizes that the dignity she thought she had always conferred upon him was actually humiliating to him. He informs her that he and the Smales have been summoned to the chief's village. Though July has authority in his village, they still must ask the chief's permission to stay. Maureen struggles with her new subservience to July. After Gina goes to play with Nyiko and Bam goes with Victor and Royce to fish, a helicopter with unidentifiable markings flies over the village. ReceptionAnne Tyler, writing for the New York Times, praised the novel, saying that Gordimer "has outdone herself" and that the work was "So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible".[3] In his book Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different, Anthony C. Alessandrini referred to Tyler's take on the novel as "maddening" given that the "events" she describes result in the fall of Apartheid.[4] ControversyJuly's People was temporarily banned from schools in Gauteng Province, in South Africa for a brief period in 2001.[5] The government of Gauteng province provided the following reason for the ban: {{quote|the subject matter is questionable ... the language that is used is not acceptable, as it does not encourage good grammatical practices ... the reader is bombarded with nuances that do not achieve much ... any condemnation of racism is difficult to discover - so the story comes across as being deeply racist, superior and patronising.[5]}}The book was banned alongside other books, including several Shakespeare plays, among them Julius Caesar and Othello. References1. ^{{cite journal|last=Erritouni|first=Ali|date=Winter 2006|title=Apartheid Inequality and Postapartheid Utopia in Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"|journal=Research in African Literatures|volume=37|issue=4|pages=68–84}} {{Nadine Gordimer}}{{DEFAULTSORT:July's People}}{{1980s-ah-novel-stub}}{{1980s-SouthAfrica-novel-stub}}2. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1291396.stm|title=South Africa reinstates authors|date= 22 April 2001|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=10 June 2009}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/gordimer-july.html|title=South Africa after Revolution - Anne Tyler|last=Anne Tyler|date= 7 June 1981|work=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=17 May 2015}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Alessandrini|first=Anthony |title=Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different|year=2014|publisher=Lexington Books}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/apr/19/fiction.artsandhumanities|title=Stranger than fiction|last=Cartwright|first=Justin|date=19 April 2001|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=17 October 2016}} 7 : 1982 novels|Historical novels|South African alternative history novels|Apartheid novels|Novels by Nadine Gordimer|Novels set in South Africa|Censored books |
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