Occasion for Loving

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Occasion for Loving is a novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer that explores interracial love and the moral complexities of life under apartheid.

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instanceOf novel
author Nadine Gordimer NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin South Africa
criticalReception widely discussed in academic criticism of apartheid literature
explores artistic freedom under political repression
constraints of apartheid laws on personal relationships
position of white liberals in apartheid South Africa
tension between private life and public politics
followedBy The Late Bourgeois World NERFINISHED
genre apartheid literature
novel
political fiction
social novel
hasCharacter Ann Davis NERFINISHED
Gideon Shibalo NERFINISHED
Jessie Stilwell NERFINISHED
Tom Stilwell NERFINISHED
hasSubject art and politics
liberalism in apartheid South Africa
marriage and infidelity
race relations in South Africa
literaryMovement anti-apartheid literature
mainTheme apartheid
interracial love
liberal guilt
moral complexity
personal relationships under oppression
racism
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor early fictional treatment of interracial love under apartheid
originalLanguage English
partOf Nadine Gordimer bibliography
precededBy A World of Strangers NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1963
publisher Gollancz NERFINISHED
setInCountry South Africa NERFINISHED
setInPeriod apartheid era
setting Johannesburg NERFINISHED

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Nadine Gordimer notableWork Occasion for Loving