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"...flotsam from the fatherland."
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André BrinkAttempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its sile — André Brink
"Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences."
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André Brink
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André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
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"Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions."
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"[t]hrough perceiving the world as a story to be told and endlessly reshaped, I would argue, the reader is actually encouraged to act upon the world (..) literature becomes more, not less, potent"
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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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"Uncovers the dark places into which we may fear to look."
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