A story for this place and time : an interview with Nadine Gordimer about Burger's daughter / Susan Gardner -- Waiting for revolution / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- The subject of revolution / Stephen R. Clingman -- Leaving the mother's house / John Cooke -- Prospero's complex : race and sex in Burger's daughter / Judie Newman -- Nadine Gordimer : the degeneration of the great South African lie / Abdul R. Janmohamed -- Burger's daughter : the synthesis of revelation / Margot Heinemann -- What the book is about / Nadine Gordimer -- Still waiting for the great feminist novel / Susan Gardner -- Burger's daughter : lighting a torch in the heart of darkness / Lorraine Liscio -- Exiled in and exiled from : the politics and poetics of Burger's daughter / Louise Yelin.