African Book Week: In the Fog of the Seasons' End

 In the Fog of the Seasons' End

In the Fog of the Seasons' End is a 1972 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma. Like many of La Guma's other novels, it is focused on challenging the social systems of apartheid in South Africa. The main character in the novel, Beukes, is an organizer of an anti-apartheid underground. The novel was dedicated to Basil February and other resistance fighters who died in Zimbabwe in 1967. The novel has been extensively explored as part of marxist literary criticism, while reflecting on La Guma's marxist political philosophy.

The title comes from the last line of a poem from Conte Saidon Tidiany. The novel was published with only 181 pages, with some critics describing it as merely a novella.

References

·  Nwagbara, Uzoechi (March 2011). "Arresting Historical Violence: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Alex La Guma's Fiction". Journal of Pan African Studies. 4 (3).

·  ·  Pushpa Naidu Parekh; Siga Fatima Jagne (1998). "ALex La Guma". Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 267–273. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5.

·  ·  Fritz Pointer (2001). "In the Fog of the Season's End: Image and Idea". A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six. Africa World Press. pp. 177–225. ISBN 978-0-86543-818-7.

·  Mkhize, Jabulani (2010-12-01). "Shades of Working-Class Writing: Realism and the Intertextual in La Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End". Journal of Southern African Studies. 36 (4): 913–922. doi:10.1080/03057070.2010.527644. ISSN 0305-7070.