What Happened To Burger’s Daughter : Nadine Gordimer 1980
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An Expose of Censorship in Apartheid South Africa By Taurus Press Highlighting the Case of Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Gordimer, Nadine, et al. What Happened To Burger’s Daughter or How South African Censorship Works. Taurus Press. Emmarentia, South Africa. 1980. First Edition.
First edition essay collection from small underground anti-Apartheid press, Taurus, run by “three academics of the University of Witwatersand”, outlining the controversy surrounding Burger’s Daughter, a novel by South African writer and activist Nadine Gordimer, originally banned in 1979 before the government reversed its decision.
In addition to writings from Gordimer explaining the situation, the collection reprints both the official letters explaining the ban and its reversal, as well as a legal analysis by law professor John Dugard on South African censorship.
74pp. Perfect bound in black printed wraps. Wear to edges and spine. Reading creases as well as creasing with pigment losses to both faces. Pages toned but clean. Good. Includes publisher’s bilingual English-Afrikaans compliment slip.
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