Oct 11, 2008

Cry, the Beloved Country | Cry, the Beloved Country

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Author: Alan Paton
First Published: 1948
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Prisoners, Blacks, Colonialism, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Capital punishment, Ministry or ministers, Ethnic relations, South Africa or South Africans, Clergy, Apartheid
Locales: Johannesburg, South Africa

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*Johannesburg. South Africa’s biggest and most advanced city and center of the country’s prosperous gold mining industry. During the period in which the novel is set, Johannesburg, like the rest of South Africa, is governed by increasingly rigid racially discriminatory laws and customs, all of which favor the country’s white minority. Nevertheless, black Africans flock to the city and its mines from impoverished rural areas to find wage employment and other opportunity. However, even in the great city, jobs are hard to find.

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