[Year of first publication] 1987 [Character(s)] Hillela Capran [Work] A Sport of Nature [Creator] Nadine Gordimer [Country of publication] South Africa [Details] The story follows Hillela, a Jewish woman born in South Africa, who was known as Kim while in school. Hillela reclaims her Jewish lineage by dropping the name Kim. She later has a relationship and a daughter with a black African revolutionary. After he dies, Hillela becomes one of the wives of another black man who becomes President of a fictitious African country and is given the name African name Chiemeka. In the character's changing of names with the changing of identities, Louise Yelin says the novel explores "whether or how Jewish, English-speaking white writers in South Africa can become African writers".[103] [Media] 
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