Wynter’s afterword to Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (1990) critiques colonial epistemologies and how dominant narratives have historically silenced and dehumanized marginalised voices. Wynter critically engages with Shakespeare's The Tempest and its characters—Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban—to reinterpret the colonial and gendered dynamics embedded in the play. By introducing the figure of Caliban’s woman, Wynter examines the processes of silencing and resistance, theorising a “demonic ground” as a site of dehumanisation and generative possibility.

This 2023 paper by German-Palestinian feminist scholars (published in Ethnography) critically investigates the intersections of geopolitics, race, and feminism. Our focus was on the section The Politics of Silence, Silencing, and Speaking, which examines the ways in which silence operates as a political strategy in academia and beyond, particularly in the context of the destruction of Palestinian life by Western powers.

In the introduction to this foundational work, Campt uses oral history interviews with Afro-Germans who survived the Third Reich to explore racialised memory. Her analysis uncovers the politics of inclusion and exclusion in dominant historical narratives, demonstrating how silence shapes collective memory.