Giving Voice: Narrating silence, history and memory in André Brink’s The Other Side of Silence and Before I Forget
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https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v42i1.29697Mots-clés :
André P. Brink, The Other Side of Silence, Before I Forget, silence, history memoryRésumé
This essay examines André P. Brink's two most recent novels, The Other Side of Silence (2002) and Before I Forget (2004), in terms of their voicing of silence and the rewriting of history and memory. Each has a theme familiar to Brink's readers - an historical story of colonial violence and violation avenged; and the recounting by an older writer of his "last love", respectively - and each is mediated by a male narrator. Both narrators, though, draw attention to the problems associated with this reconstructive and potentially appropriative storytelling. These texts thereby enact, in a more complex way than many of Brink's previous novels, the intersections of narrative, history and memory.
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(c) Copyright Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2005
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