Culture of South Africa "July's People", was released in 1981, depicting the collapse of white-minority rule. Athol Fugard, whose plays have been regularly premiered in fringe theatres in South Africa, London (The Royal Court Theatre), and New York City. Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" (1883) was a revelation in Victorian literature: it is heralded by many as introducing feminism into the novel form. Alan Paton published the acclaimed novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" in 1948. He told the tale of a black priest who comes to Johannesburg to find his son, which became an international best-seller. During the 1950s, "Drum" magazine
Beloved (novel) Beloved (novel) Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–65), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. Morrison had come across the story "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article published in the "American Baptist" and reproduced in "The Black Book", a miscellaneous compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974. "Beloved" begins in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where