The weak and minor position given to women here goes hand in hand with the degradation of African land. This article is an ecofeminist reading of Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country: It aims to elucidate that both white and black women do not have much leverage within the colonialist and patriarchal society in which they live. The examples that show the political, social and economic exploitation of women along with the degradation of land are numerous. However, they do not take into consideration the feminist considerations and ecological implications permeated in the novel. Alan Paton’s maiden novel, and still his magnum opus, Cry, the Beloved Country has often been interpreted as a postcolonial literary document that records the segregational discrimination of the 1940s, which was later institutionalised as the ill-reputed apartheid a few months following the publication of the novel.
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