Voices of Liberation Alex La Guma

The Exile Years: 1966-1985 Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 revisits the exile writing of Alex La Guma (1925-1985), a canonical writer of South African literature during the apartheid era. An activist with the South African Communist Party, the South African Coloured People’s Organisation, and the African National Congress, La Guma published numerous works and served as Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1979 until his death inn Havana, Cuba, in 1985. He posthumously received the Order of lkhamanga in Gold for his body of work in 2003.

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm

Pages:

544

ISBN-13:

978-0-7969-2667-8

Publish Year:

February 2024

Rights:

World Rights

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Editing and Selection

Timeline

His Life in Exile

His Voice

Part I. Political Worlds

Part II. Cultural Scenes and Arguments

Part III. Literary Criticism and the Writing Life

Part IV. Five Stories and One Play

Part V. Interviews and Memoir

Reflections on His Legacy

Select Bibliography

About the Editor

Christopher J. Lee has held academic appointments at institutions in Africa, Asia, and North America. He most recently served as Professor of African History, World History, and African Literature at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University.

He has published seven books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), and Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021). He received his PhD in history from Stanford University.

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