What is it about?
A detailed analysis of the imagery and traditional fairy-tale themes that are central to the structure of Gordimer's terrifying "fairy-tale" of white and black relations in South Africa. What is meant to save a young boy from invasions by black people from the townships ultimately kills him.
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Why is it important?
Gordimer details in horrifying images the self-defeating racism of the South African regime under apartheid.
Perspectives
I found this to be one of the most ironic and most powerful indictments of apartheid ever written.
Dr. Michael W. Shurgot
South Puget Sound Community College (Ret.)
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This page is a summary of: Imagery and Structure in Nadine Gordimer's “Once upon a Time”, Journal of Literary Studies, September 2008, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02564710802024826.
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