Alex la Guma : A Literary and Political Biography /: A Literary and Political Biography. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roger Field.
• Authors: Field, Roger
• Contents: Introduction; 'A man in an ordinary cloth cap': family, society & founding political moments; 'Brown Sons of Africa': National Liberation League, early literary influences & World War II; 'The honey of a satirical philosophy': Blanche, the national question & New Age political journalism; 'This is the time for practical politics': election controversies, satire & the art of treason; 'Maybe he thought it was a disgrace, too': the languages of resistance & A Walk in the Night ; 'The clouds, pregnant with moisture': And a Threefold Cord, biography, influence & anxiety; 'Well, I'll just start again, won't I?': The Stone Country, house arrest & departure; 'You had to be contented with history': In the Fog of the Seasons' End & Cold War politics of culture & identity; 'Y eso, lo tenemos aquí en Cuba!': Cuba, Cabral, Time of the Butcherbird, Hemingway & A Soviet Journey ; Coming home
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846157875; 1846157870
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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