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Nadine Gordimer’s Late Style: An Analysis of Selected Stories from Loot and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black Cover

Nadine Gordimer’s Late Style: An Analysis of Selected Stories from Loot and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

By: Marek Pawlicki  
Open Access
|Feb 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/stap.2024.58.11 | Journal eISSN: 2082-5102 | Journal ISSN: 0081-6272
Language: English
Page range: 221 - 239
Published on: Feb 22, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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