{"product_id":"culture-and-liberation-9780857427892","title":"Culture and Liberation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'La Guma himself inhabited the dual role of writer-fighter that he maintained was crucial in the national liberation struggle. This conviction – that aesthetic concerns must speak to the people’s lived experiences and their emancipatory aspirations – aligns with La Guma’s commitment to socialist realism; yet, to attend to his non-fiction writing is to see that conviction in action. Offering a more holistic view of La Guma’s writing life in exile, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Liberation \u003c\/i\u003eworks to “bring him home” while contributing new materials for understanding socialism and resistance movements in Africa, and South-South cultural studies more broadly.\" * Journal of the African Literature Association *\u003cbr\u003e\"La Guma has also inspired a consistent body of earnest and well-grounded scholarly study, much of it aimed at filling in the shadow in which the author’s career resides. \u003ci\u003eCulture and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e is a new and worthy entrant that does the good work of concretising some of La Guma’s disappearing archive. The editor, Christopher J Lee, has gathered together a weighty assortment of essays, reports, reviews, interviews and stories penned over the course of La Guma’s career. These ancillary texts, the sort of thing writers do out of interest, obligation and a need to support life, are a vital if unwieldy archive through which La Guma’s abiding preoccupations can be traced.\"  * Johannesburg Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A short review can only touch upon a few points in such a wide-ranging collection. Worth mentioning, though, is La Guma’s beautiful tribute to activist\/singer\/actor Paul Robeson as one example of a work I am grateful to have encountered. [. . .] Christopher J. Lee’s perceptive introduction is the best account I have seen of La Guma’s life and work. On its own, it is worth the price of the book. [. . .] It is to be hoped that the present volume will help spark greater awareness of the contributions of Alex La Guma to making the world a better place.\" * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Albie Sachs\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Editing and Selection\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Christopher J. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Political Worlds\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Great Power Conspiracy: Review (January 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Time Has Come: New Forms of Struggle Face the South African Coloured Community (March 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Time Has Come: S.A. Coloured People’s Social and Economic Deterioration (April 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Time Has Come (May 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Time Has Come: The Coloured People Must Prepare to Bear Arms for Liberation (June 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Coloured Cadets Bill (October 1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Coloured People of South Africa (1968)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Pumpkins and Dark Skins (1969)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. On the Coloured People (1970)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Immorality Act: South Africa’s Sex Law (August 1970)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Dialogue ‘A Gross Betrayal’ (February 1972)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Apartheid and the Coloured People of South Africa (September 1972)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Vietnam: A People’s Victory (1973)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Whither South Africa? (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Apartheid Coloured Council Flounders (1975)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Africa and the USSR: A Friendly Handshake (1977)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Apartheid is Not Just a Regional Problem (1979)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Caribbean Against Apartheid (September 1979)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. ‘This is Our Vanguard, a Vanguard of Communists’ (1981)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Caribbean – Nobody’s Backyard (1982)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Israel and South Africa – Where the Vultures Perch (1983)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. Message to the People and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1983)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. Israel-South Africa: The Unholy Alliance (1983)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. Cuba and Africa (1984)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. Tribute to Indira Gandhi (1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Cultural Scenes and Arguments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. The Third Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference (1967)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27. Culture and Apartheid in South Africa (1968)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28. Culture and Revolution (October 1969)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29. African Culture and National Liberation (1969)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 30. Paul Robeson and Africa (1971)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 31. The Condition of Culture in South Africa (1971)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 32.  GDR Opera Supports Liberation Struggle (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 33. Culture and Liberation (1976)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 34. Has Art Failed South Africa? (1977)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 35. To Alternate Member of the Politbureau, CPSU CC, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, Comrade Sharaf R. Rashidov (1978)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 36. Report of the Acting Secretary General (1979)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 37. Final Speech, Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Writers Association (1979)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 38. ‘Walk Among the Multitudes’ (1981)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 39. To Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the CC CPSU, President of the USSR Supreme Soviet (1983)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 40. Is There a South African National Culture? (1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Literary Criticism and the Writing Life\u003cbr\u003eChapter 41. Literature and Life (1970)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 42. Address by Lotus Award Winner (1971)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 43. A Poet Is Born (1972)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 44. On Short Stories (1973)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 45. In Memory of Hutch: Alfred Hutchinson (South Africa) (1973)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 46. Lust without Passion (1973)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 47. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: ‘Life through a Crooked Eye’ (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 48. Hello or Goodbye, Athol Fugard? (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 49. Against Literary Apartheid (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 50. Sounds of a Cowhide Drum by Oswald Joseph Mtshali (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 51. I Came Here to Sing: A Tribute to Pablo Neruda (1974)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 52. South African Freedom Poetry (1975)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 53. South African Writing under Apartheid (1975)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 54. What I Learned From Maxim Gorky (1977)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Five Stories and One Play\u003cbr\u003eChapter 55. Come Back to Tashkent (1970)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 56. The Man in the Tree (1971)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 57. The Exile (1972)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 58. Late Edition (1972)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 59. Thang’s Bicycle (1976)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 60. Blankets (1978)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V. Interviews and Memoir\u003cbr\u003eChapter 61. Alex La Guma, South African Author Recently Settled in London (November 1966)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 62. A Home Away from Home (1969)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 63. Why I Joined the Communist Party (1971)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 64. Answers to Our Questionnaire (1977)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 65. Why I Joined the Communist Party: Doing Something Useful (1982)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 66. Two Letters from Sechaba (1984)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 67. ‘My Books Have Gone Back Home’ (1984)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 68. Report of the Secretary General to the Seventh General (25th Anniversary) Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September-October 1983 (1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Bill Nasson\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406310678871,"sku":"9780857427892","price":33.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857427892.jpg?v=1730495340","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-liberation-9780857427892","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}