The Music under the Stone: A Reading of Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country
This paper recognizes the critical divide occasioned by Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country, providing examples of theoretical positioning from the Formalist and Marxist schools, respectively. In a re-reading of the text, motivated by the author’s own metapoetic stance, it argues for the opening up of...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | This paper recognizes the critical divide occasioned by Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country, providing examples of theoretical positioning from the Formalist and Marxist schools, respectively. In a re-reading of the text, motivated by the author’s own metapoetic stance, it argues for the opening up of new ground in the study of South African literary sociology and proffers ‘psycho-history’ as an additional – even newer – critical tool to set alongside conventional textual analysis and literary criticism, in an attempt to explain the significance of ‘the music under the stone’ of imprisonment in apartheid South Africa. |
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