Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Paton, Alan.; Paton, Alan.; Race relations in literature.; Apartheid in literature.; South African literature (English) -- History and criticism.; South Africa -- In literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Critical views; title: Horton Davies on inspiration; title: Sheridan Baker on the book as moral geography; title: Edmund Fuller on tragedy; title: Martin Tucker on the novel of forgiveness; title: Myron Matlaw on stylistic understatement; title: Robert L. Duncan on the suffering servant; title: J.M. Coetzee on simple language; title: Tony Adler on Cry, the beloved country and Lost in the stars; title: Carol Iannone on Paton's tragic liberalism; title: Mark Hestenes on Graham Greene and Alan Paton; title: Works by Alan Paton.