Books Like Valley Song by Athol Fugard | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 50 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Valley Song.
Related Topics

Books Like Valley Song by Athol Fugard | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 50 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Valley Song.
This section contains 576 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Valley Song Study Guide

Fugard has written nearly two dozen plays. All of them are set in his native South Africa, and many share some of the same qualities: intimate, small-cast, poetic dramas set against the beauty of the South African countryside and the tragedy of its politics. Fugard's first big success, The Blood Knot (1961), is about two half-brothers, one black, the other nearly white but technically "colored," and the effects of apartheid on their lives. In Master Harold. . .and the Boys (1982), a young white South African boy learns some lessons about family, love, and dignity from the two black servants in his parents' café. My Children! My Africa! (1989) explores the devastating effects of anti-apartheid demonstrations and township riots on a black teacher and two of his students, one black, the other white.

August Wilson's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences is set in Pittsburgh...

(read more)

This section contains 576 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Valley Song Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Valley Song from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.