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Alan Stewart Paton (1903-1988) was a South African writer and liberal leader. His novel Cry, The Beloved Country won him world acclaim for the insights it gave on South Africa's race problem. Alan Stewart Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg in the Natal P...

Alan Paton was one of South Africa's best-known novelists, as well as a reputable poet, biographer, politician, prison reformer, and thinker. Following the publication of his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, in 1948, Paton quickly became South Afri...

In a cathedral in Norway in 1946, Alan Paton sat looking at a rose window. "There was still enough light in the sky to see its magnificent design and colors," wrote Paton in Towards the Mountain, his autobiography. "I was in the grip of powerful emotion,...

Cry, the Beloved Country - Anan Paton - 1948 Introduction South African Alan Paton was forty-three years old when he began writing his first and most famous novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. He wrote it by hand while on a tour to several countries, which...

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1903, Alan Stewart Paton was educated at Maritzburg College and the University of Natal, graduating with a degree in science. As a young man, he taught mathematics and...

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Jn 1946 Alan Paton, director of a South African student reformatory, took an extended leave of absence from his work in order to examine penal institutions in Europe and America. During his tour, he became inspired...

Cry, The Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. It was first published in New York in 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons and in London by Jonathan Cape. The protagonist is Stephen Kumalo, a black Anglican priest from a rural Natal...

In the essay below, Matlaw compares the generic methods of Cry, the Beloved Country to Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (1949), a stage adaptation of Paton's novel, demonstrating how each work uses such formal strategies as narrative, stylistic devices, and characterization that achieve "very similar effects."

In the following essay, first printed in 1948 in America magazine, Gardiner commends Paton's artistic treatment of racial tensions in Cry, the Beloved Country, especially in comparison to contemporary trends in fiction.

The emotional impact of Cry, the Beloved Country is achieved, first of all and most consistently, by Paton's stylistic understatement, by his use and reuse of a few simple, almost stilted, formal phrases. Is it heavy? Jarvis asks Stephen Kumalo when the latter haltingly and painfully reveals his identity as the father of the murderer of Jarvis' son. Kumalo's reply echoes and reechoes the adjective: It is very heavy, umnumzana. It is the heaviest thing of all my years … This thing...

A discussion of the way structure, language and style has been used to develop symbolism and suggest a solution to South Africa's problems of racial segregation and hatred in Alan Paton's novel 'Cry, The Beloved Country'.

Discusses the attitudes of survival in the book "Cry, the Beloved Country."

Discusses the importance of tribal life in pre-apartheid South Africa and the repercussions of its destruction as portrayed by the book "Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton.