SOURCE: An introduction to Lives on the Line: The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors, edited by Doris Meyer, University of California Press, 1988, pp. 1-11.
Meyer is an American writer and educator, and the author of several books on Latin American literature. In the following excerpt, she provides an overview of the role of the Latin American writer throughout history.
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