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Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions.

— André Brink The Other Side of Silence (2002)

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

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

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Attempt new strategies which will convert previous defeats into victory.

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

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She did what no one had thought possible.

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