Alex la Guma: A literary and political biography
这篇传记评述了Field对南非作家亚历克斯·拉·古马的研究，涵盖其小说、诗歌、漫画、绘画等广泛作品，并分析其流亡时期的创作，但指出该书因试图涵盖过多内容而难以保持内在连贯性。
This biography's epigraph is taken from George Seferis's poem ‘How can you gather together the thousand fragments of each person?’ The short answer would appear to be ‘fragmentarily’. Field suggests that ‘biographies may be comprehensive, magisterial, monumental, a judicious blend of theory or fact and interpretation, and internally coherent but not whole’ (p. 2). His work is comprehensive and in many respects magisterial, but in its disavowal of wholeness it stakes a claim to an internal coherence that can't always be sustained. Field justifiably claims that his account of la Guma differs from its predecessors in that it examines a much wider range of material within a more complex analysis of la Guma's life (p. 5). It looks at la Guma's speeches, journalism – including the Little Libby comic strips, of which it provides an excellent analysis –painting, sketches, poems, and radio plays, and his biography of his father, as well as his fiction; and it devotes a good deal of attention to la Guma's extensive output in exile. It has many strengths; its weaknesses can probably be attributed at least in part to Field's trying to do too much in too limited a compass.