Alan Paton's striking novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa puts forth the possibility of the existence of goodness in humankind against a backdrop of racial inequality, hate, and fear.
Contents:
Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country after twenty-five years / Charles R. Larson The social record in Paton's Cry, the beloved country / J. Alvarez-Pereyre Fiction and history : fact and invention in Alan Paton's novel Cry, the beloved country / R.W.H. Holland Cry, the beloved country and the failure of liberal vision / Stephen Watson Alan Paton's tragic liberalism / Carol Iannone "A corridor shut at both ends" : admonition and impasse in van der Post's In a province and Paton's Cry, the beloved country / David Medalie "Considered as a social record" : a reassessment of Cry, the beloved country / Andrew Foley Alan Paton's sublime : race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination / Hermann Wittenberg Whose beloved country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical / Andrew van der Vlies