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Writing on the Border Between the Coming Order and the Perished Order - Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
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In The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer creates renewed writing space by implementing ingenious literary styles in the form of the South African traditional Plaasroman genre. This paper demonstrates that Gordimer reveals her knowledge of the situation of South Africa in the 1970s and, by delving into a white man’s dislocated and collapsed consciousness, demands that whites change their way of thinking to conform to the emerging order of black people in South Africa. Although the protagonist Mehring, a pig-iron industrialist and owner of a suburban farm, pretends to be a conservationist of South African nature, he appears instead to be a conservationist of the conventional world instituted by Apartheid. However, Mehring’s ‘actual world’ as a ‘closed system’ experiences irrevocable disrupture when he encounters an unknown black body in the field of his farm, which signifies the Lacanian ‘real’ annulled and eliminated by the laws and languages of Apartheid. Mehring is forced to disclose his lack of awareness of the land and people of South Africa. He is incapable of perceiving other languages beyond Apartheid and fails to make relationships with other people since he cannot escape the order and the language of Apartheid. Mehring’s predicament exemplifies the situation of whites in South Africa who are being enmeshed in an obsolescent order and language system of white dominance. In The Conservationist, Gordimer urges South African whites to recognize the loss of their power of language and order and to prepare to accept the coming new order of black people.
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In The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer creates renewed writing space by implementing ingenious literary styles in the form of the South African traditional Plaasroman genre. This paper demonstrates that Gordimer reveals her knowledge of the situation of South Africa in the 1970s and, by delving into a white man’s dislocated and collapsed consciousness, demands that whites change their way of thinking to conform to the emerging order of black people in South Africa. Although the protagonist Mehring, a pig-iron industrialist and owner of a suburban farm, pretends to be a conservationist of South African nature, he appears instead to be a conservationist of the conventional world instituted by Apartheid. However, Mehring’s ‘actual world’ as a ‘closed system’ experiences irrevocable disrupture when he encounters an unknown black body in the field of his farm, which signifies the Lacanian ‘real’ annulled and eliminated by the laws and languages of Apartheid. Mehring is forced to disclose his lack of awareness of the land and people of South Africa. He is incapable of perceiving other languages beyond Apartheid and fails to make relationships with other people since he cannot escape the order and the language of Apartheid. Mehring’s predicament exemplifies the situation of whites in South Africa who are being enmeshed in an obsolescent order and language system of white dominance. In The Conservationist, Gordimer urges South African whites to recognize the loss of their power of language and order and to prepare to accept the coming new order of black people.
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