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Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloom's modern critical interpretationsPublication details: New York : Bloom's Literacy Criticism, ©2010.Edition: New edDescription: vii, 185 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781604135831
  • 1604135832
Other title:
  • Cry, the beloved country
Subject(s):
Contents:
Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country after twenty-five years / Charles R. Larson -- The social record in Paton's Cry, the beloved country / J. Alvarez-Pereyre -- Fiction and history : fact and invention in Alan Paton's novel Cry, the beloved country / R.W.H. Holland -- Cry, the beloved country and the failure of liberal vision / Stephen Watson -- Alan Paton's tragic liberalism / Carol Iannone -- "A corridor shut at both ends" : admonition and impasse in van der Post's In a province and Paton's Cry, the beloved country / David Medalie -- "Considered as a social record" : a reassessment of Cry, the beloved country / Andrew Foley -- Alan Paton's sublime : race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination / Hermann Wittenberg -- Whose beloved country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical / Andrew van der Vlies.
Summary: Essays examine Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 823.914 A319 Available 33111008438570
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Alan Paton's striking novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa puts forth the possibility of the existence of goodness in humankind against a backdrop of racial inequality, hate, and fear.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country after twenty-five years / Charles R. Larson -- The social record in Paton's Cry, the beloved country / J. Alvarez-Pereyre -- Fiction and history : fact and invention in Alan Paton's novel Cry, the beloved country / R.W.H. Holland -- Cry, the beloved country and the failure of liberal vision / Stephen Watson -- Alan Paton's tragic liberalism / Carol Iannone -- "A corridor shut at both ends" : admonition and impasse in van der Post's In a province and Paton's Cry, the beloved country / David Medalie -- "Considered as a social record" : a reassessment of Cry, the beloved country / Andrew Foley -- Alan Paton's sublime : race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination / Hermann Wittenberg -- Whose beloved country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical / Andrew van der Vlies.

Essays examine Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa.

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