Search results for "André Brink"
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A Chain of Voices: A "Masters and Slaves" Narrative
2022
Because no less than thirty different narrators take turns to tell us the story of a slave revolt, A Chain of Voices can be read as Brink's attempt at revisiting the classical "slave narrative", turning it into a polyphonic "masters and slaves" narrative in which everyone is given a say. This article examines how this polyphonic, and even multifocal, mode of narration enables Brink to write back to both classical slave narratives and to their twentieth-century counterparts, the neo-slave narratives. What it suggests is that although A Chain of Voices bears many resemblances to neo-slave narratives in terms of form, especially because of its recourse to polyphony, it is also extremely close …
André Brink and the Afrikaner Heritage
2004
This paper shows how André Brink, dissident Afrikaans writer, tried to write against his heritage. The most visible strategy consisted in redefining Afrikanerdom as dissidence and as africanity. The notion of betrayal was systematically reversed so that the Afrikaners who supported the Afrikaner regime were presented as the real traitors. Yet dissidence was not an easy position for Brink and both he and his heroes had ambivalent positions.
Magic Realism in Two Post-Apartheid Novels by André Brink
2003
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Le théâtre dans Looking on Darkness d'André Brink: le roman d'un acteur
2004
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Devil's Valley: une histoire littéraire de l'Afrique du Sud
2003
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Writing woman back into history. Magic realism in André Brink's Imaginings of Sand
2003
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Identité et espace chez André Brink: Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain et Imaginings of Sand
2007
This article explores André Brink's conception of identity in terms of space. Examining three novels which all revolve around a first-person narrator exploring his/her own identity, Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain and Imaginings of Sand, it shows that Brink's conception of identity is both spatial and familial: characters try to become "rooted" in South African soil, but this rooting process is achieved only in the post-apartheid novel, Imaginings of Sand. A brief comparison with Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon tries to shed light on the source of Brink's spatial conception of identity.
First-Hand Becomes Second-Hand: André Brink's A Dry White Season
2009
This paper offers a reading of André Brink's novel A Dry White Season in relation to his own essay The Novel:. Language and Narrative From Cervantes to Calvino. The aim is to demonstrate that Brink's theory can help highlight aspects of his apartheid writings which have often been neglected. The paper explores, in particular, the metafictional features of a novel more famous for its committed nature than for its self-reflexivity
André Brink : Under the Sign of Dialogue
2005
This paper explores the question of self-translation. The aim is to understand why André Brink chose to translate his own novels into English, and to analyse the relationships between different versions of the same novel.