What Is Collective Voice?

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Collective voice is the articulation of a group which could either be a residential district , a particular racial group, sex , gender etcetera. What make it a collective is that the members in the group speak with one part , as in the novel. Experiences are not personalised, it is a joint experience. The collective speaks in unity and in unison , because the desire , promise , dreams, challenge , defeat , joys and lugubriousness are the same or at least, similar. The group speaks and acts on behalf of the person .

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