This chapter attempts to problematize a simplistic view of Nadine Gordimer as literary chronicler of South African history in the apartheid and immediately post-apartheid eras. Pointing out the tensions in Gordimer's work between her sense of belonging in South Africa or in a world defined by European culture, the chapter suggests that Gordimer has a kind of “split position” vis-à-vis her readers, implicating them, no less than apparently apolitical white South Africans, as passive enablers of apartheid, and subsequently as complicit in unthinking middle-class consumerism that puts the planet at risk. Ultimately, however, the fact that Gordimer physically lived in South Africa throughout the apartheid era right up until her death in 2014 indicates her underlying commitment to the nation of her birth, no matter how problematic her whiteness may have been.