More than anything, fantastic literature offers territories… - Marjorie Agosín

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More than anything, fantastic literature offers territories and spaces for subversion, disorder and illegality by using the only code possible: the imaginary. The fantastic, whatever genre it occupies, has the option or, better said, the desire to act through what has been culturally defined as forbidden and marginal. By talking and writing about the forbidden, about zones of silence, fantastic literature resides in the area of the always possible.

Marjorie Agosín

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Marjorie Agosín (born June 15, 1955) is a Chilean-American writer.

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