A Critical Study of Novels of Alex La Guma

Abstract

The working class people of South Africa in the matrix of social tension and strife in South Africa is revealed in the novels of Alex  La Guma. The purpose of this paper is why the workers become violent in rainy environment and its effects on the working class family, La Guma expands to the macro-environment of the working class in the novel. The family and the working class district form the background to which the political movement can be understood. The underground liberation movement is portrayed as a working class organisation fighting against racist oppression and exploitation, apartheith. The present study emphasized is completely the urgent need for impact with special reference to this Novel “A walk in the Night” The Stone Country, And a Threefold Cord. This novella reveals to readers the atrocities that were perpetrated against the non-whites in South Africa. This study highlights the restrictions placed on African workers under the oppressive Apartheid system and its effects on the psyche of the non-whites in South Africa have been given credible space in the novella. There is seen in this novella a fictionalization of the different forms of maltreatments that nonwhites suffered during the Apartheid regime. There is also seen in the novella a relentless effort by La Guma to protest against the Apartheid era. The life-styles of the non-whites clearly indicate that the Apartheid system really took away the dignity of the non-whites in South Africa. Analyses such as this can be fruitful for instance in the area of “A walk in the Night”.A Walk in the Night is literally a story of Michael Adonis’s walk through District Six in one eventful evening.