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Writing is a body of human expression, in which the daily conventions of our lives join with the ambiguities and subtleties of literature. But we mus… - Marjorie Agosín
" "Writing is a body of human expression, in which the daily conventions of our lives join with the ambiguities and subtleties of literature. But we must add in the bodies of the disappeared without identity, without memory-and this becomes the existential body of this literature that is not quieted by the dominant ideology or its power to deny what is happening. In the context of the early 1970s, it is impossible to deny the bodies floating by the banks of the Mapocho River in Santiago. It is impossible to look at the streets of El Salvador and not see the mutilated bodies strewn throughout. The literature of this period gathers the victimized bodies and arms them with words; it restores them and offers them dignity.
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Marjorie Agosín (born June 15, 1955) is a Chilean-American writer.
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