Brink, André Philippus
About André Philippus Brink
Biography (South African History Online)
Attridge, Derek. "André Brink (1935 - 2015)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015
Burger, Willie. "Reading Can Be Disturbing: A Tribute to André Brink." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 52, no. 2, 2015
Pieterse, Henning. "Birthing me: André P. Brink (1935-2015)." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 52, no. 2, 2015
André P. Brink dies at 79, Obituary by SABC News. YouTube, 7 Feb. 2015
André P. Brink Memorial by the University of Cape Town South Africa. YouTube, 5 Mar. 2015
Reviews
Otas, Belinda. "A Fork in the Road." New African, vol. 497, 2010
Interviews
Recuenco Penalver, Maria. "Encounter with André Brink: Looking on . . . Self-Translation." Research in African Literatures, vol. 46, no. 2, 2015
Breysse, Serge. "'More to Write about Than Ever Before': An Interview with André Brink." Sources, no. 13, 2002
Wood, Felicity. "Interview with André Brink (Cape Town, July 1999)." English Academy Review, vol. 18, 2001
Higgins, John. "What You Never Knew You Knew: An Interview with André Brink." Pretexts, vol. 8, no. 1, 1999
Guidotti, Valeria, and Carmen Concilio. "An Interview with André Brink, Milan, 21 April 1997." Routes of the Roots: Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries, Zoppi (ed.), 1998
Kossew, Sue. "Writing in the 'New' South Africa: An Interview with André Brink." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995
Criticism
Ben Driss, Hager. "Nomadic Genres: The Case of the Short Story Cycle." Mosaic, vol. 51, no. 2, 2018
Diala, Isidore, and Hein Willemse. The Politics and New Humanism of André Brink, 2018
Petzold, Jochen. "Chains of Voices: Multiperspectivity and Historical 'Truth' in Three Novels by André Brink." English in Africa, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016
Kearney, John. "The Theme of Freedom in André Brink's Slave Novels." English Africa, vol. 42, no. 3, 2015
Chapman, Michael. "André Brink, Mevrou Sadie and Me: Reflections on and Beyond Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink." English in Africa, vol. 41, no. 1, 2014
Le Sueur, James D. "Albert Camus and the Anticolonials: Why Camus Would Not Play the Zero Sum Game." South Central Review, vol. 31, no. 3, 2014
Jansen, Ena. "Slavery and Its Literary Afterlife in South Africa and on Curacao." Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Dewulf et al. (eds.), 2012
Su, John J. Imagination and the Contemporary Novel, 2011
Lenta, Margaret. "A Chain of Voices and Unconfessed: Novels of Slavery in the 1980s and in the Present Day." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2010
Highfield, John. "Driving the Devil into the Ground: Settler Myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley." Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing, Singh and Chetty (eds.), 2010
Tendrel, Aristie. "The Myth of Don Juan in André Brink's Before I Forget." Alizés, vol. 33, 2010
Meintjies, Godfrey. "Scheherazade's Dilemma: An Exploration of André Brink's Prose Oeuvre Published After 2000." The Changing Face of African Literature, De Meyer and Kortenaar (eds.), 2009
Kauer, Ute. "The Need to Storify: Re-inventing the Past in André Brink's Novels." Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational, Rønning and Johannessen (eds.), 2007
Crous, Marius. "'Note on Sex for the Aged Widower': On André Brink's The Rights of Desire." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 43, no. 2, 2006
Kossew, Sue. "Giving Voice: Narrating Silence, History and Memory in André Brink's The Other Side of Silence and Before I Forget." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 42, no. 1, 2005
Dixon, Shelley. "'Stories or History?': Female Counter Narratives in André Brink's Imaginings of Sand." AUMLA, vol. 2004, 2004
Viljoen, Louise. "Civilization and Wilderness: Colonial Spatial Binaries and the Construction of Contemporary South African Identity in André Brink's An Instant in the Wind and Kirby van der Merwe's Klapperhaar slaap nooit stil nie (One Can Never Sleep Quietly on a Coir Mattress)." Storyscapes: South African Perspectives on Literature, Space and Identity, Viljoen and Van der Merwe (eds.), 2004
Wenzel, Marita. "Re-Writing the 'Slave Narrative': Rayda Jacobs's The Slave Book and André Brink's The Rights of Desire." English in Africa. vol. 31, no. 1, 2004
Kauer, Ute. "Nation and Gender: Female Identity in Contemporary South African Writing." Current Writing, vol. 15, no. 2, 2003
Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie. "Magic Realism in Two Post-Apartheid Novels by André Brink." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 2525, no. 2, 2003
Diala, Isidore. "Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, and Andre Brink: Guilt, Expiation, and the Reconcilitation Process in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001-2002
Nethersole, Reingard. "Places of the Past as Sites of Cultural Self-Constitution and Preservation: The Case of Es'kia Mphahlele's Father Come Home and André Brink's The First Life of Adamastor." Colonizer and Colonized, d'Haen and Krüs (eds.), 2000
Horn, Peter. "I Am Dead: You Cannot Read André Brink's On the Contrary". Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995, Attridge and Jolly (eds.), 1998
Kossew, Sue. "From Eliza to Elisabeth: André Brink's Version of the Eliza Fraser Story." Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck, McNiven et al. (eds.), 1998
Kossew, Sue. Pen and Power: A Post-Colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and André Brink, 1996
Andon-Milligan, Lillian Hilja. "André Brink's South Africa: A Quality of Light." Critique, vol. 34, no. 1, 1992
Coetzee, J. M. "André Brink and the Censor." Research in African Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, 1990
Jonckheere, W. F. "Some Dutch Modes and Sources of André Brink's Novel A Chain of Voices." Dutch Crossing, vol. 13, no. 38, 1989
MacDermott, Doireann. "A Narrow Beam of Light: A Reading of Two Novels by André Brink." World Literature Written in English, vol. 28, no. 2, 1988
Hassall, A. J. "The Making of a Colonial Myth: The Mrs. Fraser Story in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves and André Brink's An Instand in the Wind." ARIEL, vol. 18, no. 3, 1987
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
A Fork in the Road (2009)
Novels
Philida (2012)
Other Lives (2008)
The Blue Door (2007)
Praying Mantis (2005)
Before I Forget (2004)
The Other Side of Silence (2002)
The Rights of Desire (2000)
Devil’s Valley (1998)
Imaginings of Sand (1996)
On the Contrary (1993)
The First Life of Adamastor (1993)
An Act of Terror (1991)
States of Emergency (1988)
The Wall of the Plague (1984)
A Chain of Voices (1981)
A Dry White Season (1979)
Rumours of Rain (1978)
An Instant in the Wind (1975)
Looking on Darkness (1974)
The Ambassador (1963)
Poetry Collections
A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader (1986)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Language of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections." African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, Olaniyan and Quayson (eds.), 2007
"Interrogating Silence: New Possibilities Faced by South African Literature." Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheit, and Democracy, 1970-1995, Attridge and Jolly (eds.), 1998
"Nelson Mandela." TIME Magazine, vol. 151, no. 14, 1998
Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa (1998)
The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino (1988)
"South Africa: Postmodernism in Afrikaans and English Literature." International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice, Bertens and Fokkema (eds.), 1997
"Challenge and Response: The Changing Face of Theater in South Africa." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 1997
"Reinventing a Continent: Revisiting History in the Literature of the New South Africa: A Personal Testimony." World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 1, 1996
"Complications of Birth: Interfaces of Gender, Race and Class in July's People." English in Africa, vol. 21, no. 1-2, 1994
"South African Writers and the Problem of Languages." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1993
"'No Way Out': [Fugard's] Sizwe BansiIs Dead and the Dilemma of Political Drama in South Africa." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 39, no. 4, 1993
"An Ornithology of Sexual Politics: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds." English in Africa, vol. 19, no. 1, 1992
"Towards a Redefinition of Aesthetics." Current Writing, vol. 3, no. 1, 1991
Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege (1983)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
André Brink on Writing, Part 3. YouTube, 4 Apr. 2009
André Brink on Writing, Part 2. YouTube, 17 Mar. 2009
André Brink on Writing, Part 1. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2009
Racism in France – André Brink, South African Writer, YouTube, 1984