The Stone-Country

The Stone-Country is a 1967 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.[1] The novel is set in a prison, and explores how one prisoner inspires others to pursue anti-apartheid politics.[2][3] It was the last novel La Guma was able to write before his exile from South Africa.[3] The novel was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1974.

References

  1. ^ Kathleen M. Balutansky (1990). "The Stone Country: Images of Imprisonment or Imprisonment of Images?". The Novels of Alex La Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict. Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 57–80. ISBN 978-0-89410-558-6.
  2. ^ "La Guma gave a voice to the voiceless". IOL. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b Gareth Cornwell; Dirk Klopper; Craig Mackenzie (19 June 2012). "Alex La Guma". The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945. Columbia University Press. pp. 120–122. ISBN 978-0-231-50381-5.

Further reading

  • Carpenter, William (1 January 1991). ""Ovals, Spheres, Ellipses, and Sundry Bulges": Alex La Guma Imagines the Human Body". Research in African Literatures. 22 (4): 79–98. JSTOR 3820359.


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