“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… a novel primarily concerned with presenting a critique of pre-apartheid South Africa and the way in which it … own actions, disadvantage the black population. During the pre-apartheid era, when the novel was written, racial … comments on the realities of capitalist development in pre-apartheid South Africa, which enabled only a minority to …