Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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TextSeries: Bloom's guidesPublication details: Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2004Description: 120 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0791075729Subject(s): Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country | Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country | Race relations in literature | Apartheid in literature | South African literature (English) -- History and criticism | South Africa -- In literatureDDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR9369.3.P37 | C7345 2004Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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CUZ Harare Campus Open Shelf | PZ 3. P2738 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | CU5310 | Available | BK0005248 | ||
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CUZ Harare Campus Open Shelf | PZ 3. P2738 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | CU13194 | Available | BK0007218 |
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.
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