Alan Paton’s 3 Freedom Narratives and the Hypocrisies of Supremacy Laws
Table of Contents Cry, the Beloved Country Too Late the Phalarope Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful Alan Stewart Paton was born on January 11, 1903, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He was married to Dorrie Francis Lusted from 1928-1967. He attended the University of Natal and Maritzburg College. Alan visited Norway and developed his ideas about his first novel Cry, the Beloved Country which was completed while in San Francisco in 1946. His debut novel, Cry, the Beloved Country was published in 1948 and became famous as a result of that. Cry, the Beloved Country tells a story of racial injustice and profiling in the then apartheid South Africa. The novel later became the Liberal Party’s manifesto in 1953 of which Alan was a founding vice president. The party fought against the apartheid laws legislated by the National Party government. In 1949 Alan Paton received Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Alan’s first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country , his second, Too Late the Phala