This text suggests we look at absence and silences of the archive, suggesting that we approach these stories through Trouillot'squestions of how silences enter the archive at four critical moments: "The moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retreival (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance" (662).
Klein (p.662) quoting Trouillot:
"Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1997, 26) describes how such silences enter the archive at four crucial moments: 'The moment of fact creation (the making of sources ); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives ); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives ); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history ) in the final instance.'"