![]() ![]() Hackneyed as it may be, this division can help us to analyse the changes in Brink’s career, both as a fiction and as an essay writer. It has become commonplace to divide the career of South African writers of the second part of the twentieth century into two different periods, ‘apartheid’ and ‘post-apartheid’. The essays collected in Mapmakers, for instance, mostly explore the dissident Afrikaner writer’s experience in a world ruled by the arbitrariness and censorship imposed by his own people 2. Under apartheid, Brink’s essays mostly focused on the situation in South Africa and on the difficult position of the writer in his or her struggle against the system. These essays are recognized as important statements on literature and politics. He has nonetheless also published a number of essays 1 on a variety of subjects ranging from apartheid to rugby and from the heritage of Gandhi to his own novels. This collection of essays on (.)ġ André Brink’s international reputation was gained from such novels as A Dry White Season and A Chain of Voices. 4 Brink published another study entirely devoted to literature in 1996. ![]()
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