SOURCE: "Politics, Literature and the Intellectual in Latin America," in Salmagundi, Vol. 82-83, Spring/Summer, 1989, pp. 92-110.
In the following essay, Santi explores the "paradox" engendered when Latin American writers are expected to represent their geographical region's entire intellectual community while literature is generally excluded from intellectual discussion.
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