A Chain of Voices

A Chain of Voices is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer Andre Brink. The novel is a historical novel which recounts the roots of the apartheid system during the early part of the 19th century.[1] The novel focuses on a slave revolt center in the country north-east of Cape Town.[1] The novel uses a coalition of voices, representing the whole range of social groups in South Africa.[2]

Reception

The New York Times reviewer Julian Moynahan called the novel the "best novel I've read since Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise" describing it as a "massive and ambituous, and surpassing Brink's previous apartheid novel A Dry White Season.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Moynahan, Julian (June 13, 1982). "Slaves Who Said No". New York Times Review of Books.
  2. ↑ Taubman, Robert (1982-05-20). "Submission". London Review of Books. pp. 18–19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2016-02-28.

Further reading

  • Lenta, Margaret (2010-03-01). "A Chain of Voices and Unconfessed: Novels of Slavery in the 1980s and in the Present Day". Journal of Literary Studies. 26 (1): 95–110. doi:10.1080/02564710903495529. ISSN 0256-4718.
  • J.M.;, Murray, Paulus (2004-12-14). "Speaking in a chain of voices - crafting a story of how I am contributing to the creation of my postcolonial living educational theory through a self study of my practice as a scholar-educator". www.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
  • Raditlhalo, Tlhalo Sam (2011-12-01). "Senses of Identity in A Chain of Voices and The Madonna of Excelsior". Journal of Literary Studies. 27 (4): 103–122. doi:10.1080/02564718.2011.629451.


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