M Forester track and into what we might call suppressed history.
It's a telling moment in many ways, Mr. Egoyan said, and it crystallizes a central concern of the film: how does a suppressed history play on the psyche of those forced to carry it inside them?
For these revelations of what the Swedish Academy called "suppressed histories," Naipaul won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
Others — like Fethiye Cetin's "My Grandmother," in which the author recounts her discovery that her grandmother was in fact Armenian — explored suppressed histories.
Moreover, this was a critical moment for Britain's diasporas, and, in his reflections on it, Hall noted in a lecture from 1989, the first form of identity politics "had to do with the constitution of some defensive collective identity against the practices of racist society", which included rediscovering roots and suppressed histories.
Carlos Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter-narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities.
But until now, the Communist rulers of China have been relentless in suppressing the history of their worst errors, not least the frenzied attempt of Mao Zedong in the decade before his death to revitalize his rule by spreading terror.
The attempt to suppress recent history, however, does have two serious consequences.
Cheikhmous Ali, of the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archeology, regards Isis's actions as "a way to pressure and torture the local population – to suppress their history and their collective memory".
Nothing could better illustrate its determination to suppress that history, or be a better reminder of Beijing's present intractability, than the arrest of a scholar engaged in historical research.
