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Quotes from The Other Side of Silence — André Brink

1935–2015 South Africa

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Uncovers the dark places into which we may fear to look.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

Attempt new strategies which will convert previous defeats into victory.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

Address two silences simultaneously: that created by the marginalization of women,and that effected by a (white-dominated) master-narrative of history.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

She did what no one had thought possible.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

I believe more and more that as a man I owe it to herat least to try to understand what makes her a person, an individual,what defines her as a woman.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

How curious, this urge they have, all of them, to leave their mark on a woman's body. As if despair lies behind it, and fear, (..) In each theneed, the terrifying urge, to scar and leave his mark. And only her body available for their inscription.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

History provides one of the most fertile silences to be revisited by South African writers because the dominant discourse of white historiography (...) has inevitably silenced, for so long,so many other possibilities.

The Other Side of Silence (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: André Brink (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.