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"...flotsam from the fatherland."
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André BrinkEven during the days and nights when she was dazed and only half awake — André Brink
"Even during the days and nights when she was dazed and only half awake the stories must have insinuated themselves into her torn and bruised body like draughts and ointments with healing powers beyond all explanation. (There is no pain and no badness,) she still hears the dry voice of old Taras in her ear, that a story cannot cure."
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André Brink
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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"Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences."
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"She did what no one had thought possible."
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