Human rights were implemented by a group of Western nations in response to the moral crimes that occurred during World War II. Yet the same nations t… - Marjorie Agosín

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Human rights were implemented by a group of Western nations in response to the moral crimes that occurred during World War II. Yet the same nations that ratified their declaration remain unable to protect their own citizens. The strength of a literature that denounces and questions, that speaks and implies that its own citizens can decide through the power of their voices and words, becomes effective in denouncing the moral vacuum in which the abuses took place.

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About Marjorie Agosín

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

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Alternative Names: Marjorie Agosin

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Women and women artists are looking at a place to belong in the world and to call home in a very particular way. I think that women are looking for a place that will allow them to be visible. I think we live in very conflicted gender times, and most of it is the possibility for visibility: visibility as creators, visibility in the home. If you look at the whole scope of the human rights situation, you see how women are always hidden, even the veil is a form of hiding. So I think that home is to become visible.

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