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"Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions."
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André Brink"...flotsam from the fatherland."
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.
"Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions."
"[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"
"Address two silences simultaneously: that created by the marginalization of women,and that effected by a (white-dominated) master-narrative of history."
"Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences."
"She did what no one had thought possible."
"Uncovers the dark places into which we may fear to look."