Culture and liberation : exile writings, 1966-1985 / Alex La Guma ; edited and introduced by Christopher J. Lee ; foreword by Albie Sachs ; afterword by Bill Nasson.
ch. 8. Report of the Secretary General to the Seventh General (Twenty-fifth Anniversary) Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September-October, 1983. ch. 1. Great power conspiracy: review -- ch. 2. The time has come: new forms of struggle face the South African Coloured community -- ch. 3. The time has come: S. A. Coloured people's social and economic deterioration -- ch. 4. The time has come -- ch. 5. The time has come: the Coloured people must prepare to bear arms for liberation -- ch. 6. The Coloured Cadets Bill -- ch. 7. The Coloured people of South Africa -- ch. 8. Pumpkins and dark skins -- ch. 9. On the Coloured people -- ch. 10. The Immorality Act: South Africa's sex law -- ch. 11. Dialogue 'a gross betrayal' -- ch. 12. Apartheid and the Coloured people of South Africa -- ch. 13. Vietnam: a people's victory -- ch. 14. Whither South Africa? -- ch. 15. Apartheid Coloured Council flounders -- ch. 16. Africa and the USSR: a friendly handshake -- ch. 17. Apartheid is not just a regional problem -- ch. 18. Caribbean against Apartheid -- ch. 19. 'This is our vanguard, a vanguard of Communists' -- ch. 20. Caribbean -- Nobody's backyard -- ch. 21. Israel and South Africa -- Where the vultures perch -- ch. 22. Message to the people and the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- ch. 23. Israel-South Africa: the unholy alliance -- ch. 24. Cuba and Africa -- ch. 25. Tribute to Indira Gandhi -- pt. II. Cultural scenes and arguments -- ch. 1. The Third Afro-Asian Writers' Conference -- ch. 2. Culture and Apartheid in South Africa -- ch. 3. Culture and revolution -- ch. 4. African culture and national liberation -- ch. 5. Paul Robeson and Africa -- ch. 6. The condition of culture in South Africa -- ch. 7. GDR Opera supports liberation struggle -- ch. 8. Culture and liberation -- ch. 9. Has art failed South Africa? -- ch. 10. To Alternate Member of the Politbureau, CPSU CC, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, Comrade Sharaf R. Rashidov -- ch. 11. Report of the Acting Secretary General -- ch. 12. Final speech, Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Writers Association -- ch. 13. 'Walk among the multitudes' -- ch. 14. To Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the CPSU CC, President of the USSR Supreme Soviet -- ch. 15. Is there a South African national culture? -- pt. III. Literary criticism and the writing life -- ch. 1. Literature and life -- ch. 2. Address by Lotus Award winner -- ch. 3. A poet is born -- ch. 4. On short stories -- ch. 5. In memory of Hutch: Alfred Hutchinson -- ch. 6. Lust without passion -- ch. 7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'Life through a crooked eye' -- ch. 8. Hello or goodbye, Athol Fugard? -- ch. 9. Against literary Apartheid -- ch. 10. Sounds of a cowhide drum by Oswald Joseph Mtshali -- ch. 11. I came here to sing: A tribute to Pablo Neruda -- ch. 12. South African freedom poetry -- ch. 13. South African writing under Apartheid -- ch. 14. What I Learned from Maxim Gorky -- pt. IV. Five Stories and One Play -- ch. One. Come Back to Tashkent -- ch. 2. The man in the tree -- ch. 3. The exile -- ch. 4. Late edition -- ch. 5. Thang's bicycle -- ch. 6. Blankets -- pt. V. Interviews and memoir -- ch. 1. Alex La Guma, South African author recently settled in London: interview with Robert Serumaga -- ch. 2. A home away from home -- ch. 3. Why I joined the Communist Party -- ch. 4. Answers to our questionnaire -- ch. 5. Why I joined the Communist Party: doing something useful -- ch. 6. Two letters from Sechaba -- ch. 7. 'My books have gone back home' -- ch. 8. Report of the Secretary General to the Seventh General (Twenty-fifth Anniversary) Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September-October, 1983.
Summary:
One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the 1950s and 60s, La Guma went into exile in the United Kingdom with his wife and children in 1966, eventually serving as the ANC's diplomatic representative for Latin America and the Caribbean in Cuba. Culture and Liberation captures a different dimension of his long writing career by collecting his political journalism, literary criticism, and other short pieces published while he was in exile. This volume spans La Guma's political and literary life in exile through accounts of his travels to Algeria, Lebanon, Vietnam, Soviet Central Asia, and elsewhere, along with his critical assessments of Paul Robeson, Nadine Gordimer, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Pablo Neruda, among other writers. The first dedicated collection of La Guma's exile writing, Culture and Liberation restores an overlooked dimension of his life and work, while opening a window on a wider world of cultural and political struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century.
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