Cry Rage!
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Cry Rage! is a landmark work of South African protest poetry, a raw and unflinching outcry against the brutal machinery of apartheid. Published in Johannesburg in 1972, this powerful anthology gives voice to the dispossessed and the defiant, chronicling the daily humiliations, systemic violence, and simmering fury of Black South Africans living under one of history's most oppressive regimes. The verses crackle with urgency and pain, presenting a portrait of a society fractured by race law and sustained by the indomitable will of its most persecuted citizens. James Matthews and Gladys Thomas were among the first South African poets to so openly confront the apartheid state in verse, and the authorities took notice — the collection was promptly banned by the apartheid government upon its release, cementing its status as an act of literary resistance. Matthews' gritty, confrontational voice and Thomas's lyrical anguish together create a devastating dual testament to suffering and survival. Decades on, Cry Rage! endures as a vital historical document and a cornerstone of South African literature — a reminder that poetry, at its most courageous, can become an act of revolution.
Author: James Matthews And Gladys Thomas
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Spro-cas Publications
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Cry Rage! is a landmark work of South African protest poetry, a raw and unflinching outcry against the brutal machinery of apartheid. Published in Johannesburg in 1972, this powerful anthology gives voice to the dispossessed and the defiant, chronicling the daily humiliations, systemic violence, and simmering fury of Black South Africans living under one of history's most oppressive regimes. The verses crackle with urgency and pain, presenting a portrait of a society fractured by race law and sustained by the indomitable will of its most persecuted citizens. James Matthews and Gladys Thomas were among the first South African poets to so openly confront the apartheid state in verse, and the authorities took notice — the collection was promptly banned by the apartheid government upon its release, cementing its status as an act of literary resistance. Matthews' gritty, confrontational voice and Thomas's lyrical anguish together create a devastating dual testament to suffering and survival. Decades on, Cry Rage! endures as a vital historical document and a cornerstone of South African literature — a reminder that poetry, at its most courageous, can become an act of revolution.