Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Material type: TextSeries: Bloom's modern critical interpretationsPublication details: New York : Bloom's Literacy Criticism, ©2010.Edition: New edDescription: vii, 185 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781604135831
- 1604135832
- Cry, the beloved country
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 823.914 A319 | Available | 33111008438570 |
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.