The Stone-Country Explained

The Stone-Country is a 1967 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.^[1] The novel is set in a prison, and explores how one prisoner inspires others to pursue anti-apartheid politics.^[2] It was the last novel La Guma was able to write before his exile from South Africa.^[3] The novel was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1974.

References

1. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=aRYR1tnmKpEC&pg=PA60. The Novels of Alex La Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 1990. 978-0-89410-558-6. 57–80. The Stone Country: Images of Imprisonment or Imprisonment of Images?. Kathleen M. Balutansky.
2. Web site: La Guma gave a voice to the voiceless. IOL. 2016-05-12.
3. Book: Gareth Cornwell. Dirk Klopper. Craig Mackenzie. The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945. https://books.google.com/books?id=j2j_ieNDsU4C&pg=PA121. 19 June 2012. Columbia University Press. 978-0-231-50381-5. 120–122. Alex La Guma.

Further reading

• Carpenter. William. 1991-01-01. "Ovals, Spheres, Ellipses, and Sundry Bulges": Alex La Guma Imagines the Human Body. 3820359. Research in African Literatures. 22. 4. 79–98.