Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Alexander, Peter. Alan Paton: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Attridge, Derek, and Rosemary Jolly, eds. Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Baker, Sheridan, ed. Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country: The Novel, the Critics, the Setting. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968.

Bonner, Philip, Deborah Posel, Peter Delius, eds. Apartheid’s Genesis, 1935–1962. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1994.

Callan, Edward. Cry, the Beloved Country: A Novel of South Africa. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

———. Alan Paton. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.

Chiwengo, Ngwarsungu. Understanding Cry, The Beloved Country: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Sparks, Allister. The Mind of South Africa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

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