We see them under assault in Australia as people who regard themselves as being written out of the history make a claim whether they're the indigenous population or women. Exactly that s why the subtitle of the book is memory and amnesia because what we're generally aware of is what museums remember. What kind of things are constantly on display. But we have lots of people who are demanding they want to see themselves now. There's the embracing of memoirs today.
Personal history means a great deal, people want to see themselves represented.
It's not insignificant for them to be on the walls or not on the walls.