A Chain of Voices


First UK edition (Faber & Faber)

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

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

  1. ^ a b c Moynahan, Julian (13 June 1982). "Slaves Who Said No". New York Times Review of Books.
  2. ^ Taubman, Robert (20 May 1982). "Submission". London Review of Books. pp. 18–19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

Further reading

  • 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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Works by André Brink
Novels
  • Looking on Darkness (1973)
  • An Instant in the Wind (1975)
  • Rumours of Rain (1978)
  • A Dry White Season (1979)
  • A Chain of Voices (1982)
  • The Wall of the Plague
  • States of Emergency (1989)
  • An Act of Terror (1992)
  • 'The First Life of Adamastor (1993)
  • On the Contrary (1994)
  • Imaginings of Sand (1996)
  • Devil's Valley (1998)
  • The Rights of Desire (2000)
  • The Other Side of Silence (Anderkant die Stilte) (2002)
  • Before I Forget (2004)
  • The Other Side of Silence (2004)
  • Praying Mantis (2005)
  • The Blue Door (2006)
  • Other Lives (2008)
  • Philida (2012)
Memoirs
  • A Fork in the Road (2009)


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