From: "java marriott" <marriottjava-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Alex La Guma
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:20:46 +0000


Dear List Members
Is there any one out there who is working on Alex la Guma? If so I'd really 
like to recommend this book that I've just read. I've copied Heinemann's 
blurb below. I teach a couple of his books (A Walk in the Night and Time of 
the Butcherbird usually) and find that students really engage with his 
work-- even more now in this post-apartheid era. This book pretty much 
covers all criticism on La Guma up to about 2000 and offers readings of all 
his major fiction.I think it is the best on him so far. Can anybody 
recommend any other current criticism on La Guma? Is any one working on him 
at the moment?
Java
Alex La Guma :Politics and Resistance
Nahem Yousaf, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Heinemann/0-325-00189-8/2001/184 pp/ Cloth
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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.
Contents:
Preface; Writing and Resistance; Problems of Limited Political 
Understanding: A Walk in the Night; Border Crossings: The Germination of a 
Political Consciousness in And A Threefold 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.

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