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Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2004. - 120 p. ; 23 cm. - Bloom's guides .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111) and index.

Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Horton Davies on inspiration -- Sheridan Baker on the book as moral geography -- Edmund Fuller on tragedy -- Martin Tucker on the novel of forgiveness -- Myron Matlaw on stylistic understatement -- Robert L. Duncan on the suffering servant -- J.M. Coetzee on simple language -- Tony Adler on Cry, the beloved country and Lost in the stars -- Carol Iannone on Paton's tragic liberalism -- Mark Hestenes on Graham Greene and Alan Paton -- Works by Alan Paton.

Examines different aspects of Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work.

ISBN: 0791075729

LCCN: 2003019985

Subjects--Personal Names:
Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race relations in literature.
Apartheid in literature.
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Africa--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PR9369.3.P37 / C7345 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914