Alan Paton as a Deferder of Human Rights during the Apartheid Era
- Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis (coord.)
- Gómez González-Jover, Adelina (coord.)
- Lillo, Antonio (coord.)
- Yus Ramos, Francisco (coord.)
- Alcaraz Varó, Enrique (hom.)
Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones ; Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant
ISBN: 978-84-9717-137-3
Year of publication: 2010
Pages: 1163-1174
Type: Book chapter
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
The following article points out the main characteristics of the South African politician, writer and teacher Alan Paton. One of the main ideas in his ideology is his belied in a change in South African society in which blacks and whites can live in peace. Paton was very committed with the South African reality during the apartheid. Consequently, he denounced the injustice situation that surrounded back people as a public person and in his literary production, as the examples from his novels that are used in this article point out.