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MEMBER BLOG TAG: dominico stranone

Friday, May 1, 2009 4:29PM
 
Left / Right, Melted Tears
Tags: khet mar, nadeem aslam, larry siems, norbert gstrein, dominico stranone, Mariken Jongman, human rights, politics
 
Ask a room full of writers whether they have a responsibility to write about politics, and you will get a negative response.  Writing should be unfettered by responsibilities, they will assert, while a few liberal types might mutter a defense before being shouted down.  I know this because I have asked this question to a room full of writers several times.  It turns out I was merely in the wrong room.

From Words to Nations

The panel Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen, featured in the chilly Nordic basement of the Scandinavian Society, addressed these questions at length.  These writers asserted that the responsibility to engage in political discussion varies from focusing on singular words, to the empowering stories of...
 
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