Alex la Guma: a literary and political biography of the South African years
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Date
2001
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The South African years (1925-1966) of Alex la Guma is examined in this thesis. While La Guma's father was an important role model, most critics have overlooked his mother's contribution to his literary and political development. Throughout the thesis the same point is made about Blanche, La Guma's wife, who supported him in many ways. The researcher describes La Guma's infancy, childhood and adolescence, his father's political profile, how notions of race and writing, coloured identity and family and political experiences created the conditions that enabled him to become a story teller and political activist .
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>Doctor Literarum - DLit
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La Guma, Alex, Politics in literature, Journalism, Fiction, Comics, Painting