Silence as an Occidentalist tool

Occidentalism The appartment as laboratory

"She wants me to flay myself, to dig deep, to mine all that I have swallowed. Perhaps even drag Little Ahmed up, muddy water dripping from pale brow... No. »"p75 (saying "No" to not be complicit in the Western voyeurism that commands trauma narrative as an exchange for asylum. Therefore, silence becomes an Occidentalist tool to counter the orientalist gaze that craves voyeurism)

“Maybe I’m done with Josie. Maybe I’m done with all of them. Maybe it’s time, again, for silence. »p192