![]() ![]() ![]() By speaking to the history of those most marginalized, literature has the power to challenge the narrative of the dominant classes. ![]() For Galeano, literature has the power to tell the truth about the events of history to challenge the accounts of those in power. He views his writing of the book as part of the important political work that writers must do. This statement highlights Galeano’s drive to write Open Veins of Latin America. In an excerpt from his book, Days and Nights of Love and War, Galeano writes: In Latin America a literature is taking shape and acquiring strength, a literature that does not propose to bury our dead, but to immortalize them perhaps it may help to preserve for the generations to come ‘the true name of all things’ (16). ![]()
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