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Negative response: Silence in Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces

Critic Trinh T. Minh-ha, in her evocative feminist critique Woman, Native, Other, sets out to refute what she sees as a masculine system of analysis dedicated to "piercing [...] through the sediments of psychological and epistemological 'depths,'" and driven by the persistent need to label, specify, and name; Trinh prefers instead to "make of writing a site where opposites lose their essential differences and are restored to the void by their own interchangeability" (48). Integral to her process is Trinh's insistence on the validity of silence, which she sees and interprets as conspicuous absence. Trinh tells us that "Silence as a refusal to partake in the story does sometimes provide us with a means to gain a hearing," for abundant silences indicate response in their own right, as subversive non-talk amidst the prolific language of the Father (83). Similarly, Tillie Olsen warns in Silences, "We must not speak of women writers in our century [...] without speaking also of the invisible, the as-innately-capable: the born to the wrong