Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
by Paton, Alan; Bloom, HaroldEdition: Revised
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-01
Publisher(s): Facts on File
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Summary
Set in South Africa before the adoption of apartheid, Alan Paton's classic novel presents a family and a nation struggling to embrace change and resist the harmful effects of violence, apathy, and inequality. This new edition gathers a range of essential critical commentary on the work and features an introduction by scholar Harold Bloom.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Note | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country after Twenty-Five Years | p. 3 |
| The Social Record in Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country | p. 9 |
| Fiction and History: Fact and Invention in Alan Paton's Novel Cry, the Beloved Country | p. 19 |
| Cry the Beloved Country and the Failure of Liberal Vision | p. 33 |
| Alan Paton's Tragic Liberalism | p. 49 |
| "A Corridor Shut at Both Ends": Admonition and Impasse in Van der Post's In a Province and Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country | p. 65 |
| "Considered as a Social Record": A Reassessment of Cry, the Beloved Country | p. 83 |
| Alan Paton's Sublime: Race, Landscape and the Transcendence of the Liberal Imagination | p. 113 |
| Whose Beloved Country? Alan Paton and the Hypercanonical | p. 133 |
| Chronology | p. 167 |
| Contributors | p. 169 |
| Bibliography | p. 171 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 175 |
| Index | p. 177 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Excerpts
Alan Paton's striking novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa asserts the existence of goodness in humankind despite the often-overwhelming influence of racial inequality, hate, and fear. This new title in theBloom's Modern Critical Interpretationsseries features a fresh selection of full-length critical essays, in addition to a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an introduction by esteemed scholar Harold Bloom.
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