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. The novel focuses on a slave revolt center in the country north-east of Cape Town. The novel uses a coalition of voices, representing the whole range of social groups in South Africa.
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.
References
- ^ 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
- 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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