"History provides one of the most fertile silences to be revisited by South African writers because the dominant disco…"

"...flotsam from the fatherland."

"[t]hrough perceiving the world as a story to be told and endlessly reshaped, I would argue, the reader is actually en…"

"Address two silences simultaneously: that created by the marginalization of women,and that effected by a (white-domin…"

"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."

"Even during the days and nights when she was dazed and only half awake the stories must have insinuated themselves in…"

"Attempt new strategies which will convert previous defeats into victory."

"How curious, this urge they have, all of them, to leave their mark on a woman's body. As if despair lies behind it, a…"