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Alex La Guma
In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa.
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La Guma, Alex
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This volume is a novella about District Six, Cape Town, South Africa which was bulldozed into history by the apartheid regime. In the post-apartheid era, La Guma’s story is a…
In his final novel, renowned author Alex La Guma explores the tensions of a South African town fraught with the desire for revenge.
Out in the flat, featureless countryside, a…
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Written from Alex La Guma's first-hand experiences in apartheid South Africa, In the Fog of the Seasons' End is a short but powerful novel, unflinching in its depiction of the…
Roger Field
The life and works of South African writer, political activist and artist, from his early life in District Six, his arrest and trial for treason, to his eventual reluctant exile…
A Soviet Journey by the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925-1985) is one of the longest and most substantive accounts of the USSR by an African writer…
Professor Anders Breidlid (Oslo University College Norway)
This study undertakes an analysis of the models of response (resistance/non-agency) to colonial, apartheid and post-colonial imposition which are posited in the novels of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o…
One of South Africa’s best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National…
