A Chain of Voices is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer André 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 edit
The New York Times reviewer Julian Moynahan called the novel the best novel he had read since Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise and described it as "massive and ambitious, and surpassing Brink's previous apartheid novel A Dry White Season.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Moynahan, Julian (13 June 1982). "Slaves Who Said No". New York Times Review of Books.
- ^ Taubman, Robert (20 May 1982). "Submission". London Review of Books. pp. 18–19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
Further reading edit
- Lenta, Margaret (1 March 2010). "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. S2CID 143837491.
- J.M., Murray, Paulus (14 December 2004). "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 28 February 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Raditlhalo, Tlhalo Sam (1 December 2011). "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. S2CID 143390014.
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