BIBLIOGRAPHY

Green, Robert, and Agnes Lonje. “Alex La Guma: A Selected Bibliography.” World Literature Written in English 20, no. 1 (spring 1981): 16-22.

Lists publications of La Guma's short stories, interviews, and essays in magazines and periodicals; published versions of his lectures and addresses; and secondary texts, some with annotations.

CRITICISM

Field, Roger. “Art and the Man: Alex La Guma's Comics and Paintings.” Critical Survey 11, no. 2 (1999): 45-63.

Argues that La Guma's paintings and comics should be considered alongside his works of fiction and journalism because of the light they shed on his experimentation with narrative and representation.

Scanlon, Paul A. “Alex La Guma's Novels of Protest: The Growth of the Revolutionary.” Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, no. 16 (November 1979): 39-47.

Discusses La Guma's first and last novels to analyze the literary development of his revolutionary evolution.

Tremaine, Louis. “Ironic Convergence in Alex La Guma's Time of the Butcherbird.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 29, no. 2 (1994): 31-44.

Examines La Guma's narrative technique for intersecting the lives of black and white South Africans in Time of the Butcherbird.

Yousaf, Nahem. “Making History: Politics and Violence in Alex La Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34, no. 1 (1999): 115-34.

Argues that In the Fog of the Seasons' End is La Guma's most aesthetically and politically important work because of the author's embrace of both his characters' and South Africans' open and direct rebellion against apartheid.

Additional coverage of La Guma's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: African Writers; Black Literature Criticism; Black Writers, Eds. 1, 3; Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 49-52, 118; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 25, 81; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 19; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 117, 225; DISCovering Authors Modules: Novelists; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and World Literature and Its Times, Vol. 2.