In this article, we suggest that silence is often more about remembering than forgetting. We consider ways in which silences can occupy and dominate state discourse, community knowledge, family stories individual narratives. Drawing on research material from Poland the Czech Republic late socialist post-socialist periods, look at similar patterns of narrative fusion take place various contexts ...

Abstract The article analyses the political meaning of silence by reflecting on communicative, autonomous and aesthetic function in context prevailing speech systems. In article, is interpreted as an active communication form, activist protest tactic practice. argues that can have a politically subversive toward aesthetically organised systems.Conventionally, devalued Western societies primaril...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

RNA interference has been promoted as an ideal tool for functional genomics, but to date the success stories have principally been in model organisms. Two papers in this issue of Cell change all that: use of RNA interference libraries targeting large proportions of the human genome to uncover two novel tumor suppressor genes. REST is a transcriptional repressor that silences neuron-specific gen...