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Alex La Guma: Politics and Resistance(Studies in African Literature)

Alex La Guma: Politics and Resistance(Studies in African Literature)


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Explores the multifaceted dialogues with apartheid that are found in the novels by South African writer Alex La Guma. Nahem Yousaf explores the novels of Alex La Guma to reveal their contrasts, their multifaceted dialogues with apartheid, and what they inform us about the oppressive nature of the apartheid system that strove to deny non-whites their humanity. All of La Guma's fiction is overtly political in that he sought to reclaim a place and subjectivity for blacks through his creative writing. All of his writings deal with the violence of apartheid and regard violence as an inevitable aspect of anti-apartheid struggles. Conceiving the role of the writer in the same terms as that of the revolutionary freedom fighter, La Guma's writings reflect the realizations of the African National Congress leadership that only through violent resistance against, apartheid would the oppressed find liberation. Although some literary critics regard La Guma's fiction as one dimensional and flat, Yousaf argues that La Guma's characters reveal fully the complexities and contradictions of life under apartheid.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Writing and Resistance; Problems of Limited Political Jnderstanding:A Walk in the Night; Border-Crossings: The Germination of a Political Consciousness in And A Threefoid Cord; Resistance from Within the Prison of Apartheid: The Stone Country; Making History: Politics and Violence in In the Fog of the Seasons' End Conceptualization and Contextualization: Time of the Butcherbird; Towards Post-Apartheid Narratives; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Nahem Yousaf is Head of the English Department at the University of Hertfordshire.

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780325001890
  • Publisher: Heinemann USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Politics and Resistance
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0325001898
  • Publisher Date: 26 Mar 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies in African Literature
  • Weight: 440 gr


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