In his novels, kazuo ishiguro uses the narrators as storytellers, both in a benjaminian arendtian sense. Verkkoby calling forward one of bodil’s stories, we made visible different aspects of silence: Silence as context for living and telling; Verkkonarrative analysis is a useful method for uncovering the underlying ideologies embedded in stories and the larger culture that creates the narratives. Verkkocounterstorytelling is a qualitative research methodology grounded in principles of critical race theory and intended as a process for telling the lived. How to write a silenced history is the broad question that frames this essay. It explores the methodological challenges of working with a.