Cry, the Beloved Country | Cry, the Beloved Country and Strange Fruit: Exploring Man's Inhumanity to Man
In the following excerpt, the author explores the hopeful and optimistic aspects of Cry, the Beloved Country.
[Cry, the Beloved Country] emerges out of the racial problems in South Africa. We must assess it—not for its sociological content, nor outside its sociological content—as a work of art attempting to recreate experience in a world ordered by the writer. [In his introduction to Cry, the Beloved Country, Scribner's, 1948] Lewis Gannett credits the novel with being "... unashamedly innocent and subtly sophisticated. It is a story; it is a prophecy; it is a psalm." His observations merit comment. The words prophecy and psalm imply a Biblical...
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