Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Kept Quiet 2. Too Little or Too Much Said 3. Figurative Expression 4. Missing Subjects  5. The Social Construction of Absences 6. Concluding Remarks: Boundless Texts, Better Worlds Appendix: A Word on Sampling Glossary  Notes  References Index 

"An immensely innovative, elegantly written, highly imaginative, and important contribution. Unsaid provides a wealth of examples and a methodological guide on how to identify what many might deem impossible to identify."—Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles "A significant contribution to the literature on narrative and discourse analysis. Engagingly written and well thought through, Unsaid offers a compelling conceptual apparatus for considering the centrality of the unsaid, especially in relation to harm-doing and exclusionary, minoritizing practices."—Stephen Frosh, author of Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness

"Presser concedes the impossibility of creating a comprehensive, all-inclusive text in which nothing is left unsaid as she advocates for honest and critical reflection to identify the unspoken assumptions and silenced viewpoints characteristic of all texts."