“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
… primarily concerned with presenting a critique of pre-apartheid South Africa and the way in which it discriminates … for being outmoded and backward, confirming Paton’s “anti-urbanism” (Baines 41). As Foley examines, the novel has … actions, disadvantage the black population. During the pre-apartheid era, when the novel was written, racial segregation …