SOURCE: Callahan, John F. “Hearing is Believing: The Landscape of Voice in Ernest Gaines's Bloodline.” Callaloo 7, no. 1 (winter 1984): 86-112.
In the following essay, Callahan contends that in Bloodline “voice becomes a transforming agent” that allows the characters to realize their identities and pursue changes that will result in greater freedom than they had previously experienced.
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