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A literature fueled by a profound
human experience must necessarily burn at a high flame, and thus a
“material handicap” is transformed into a “spiritual advantage,” putting in
the hands of the oppressed “the conditions of a classical art,” which is to
say the power to haunt people, to move people, and expand the brackets of
humanity. This is as true for those laboring under the shadow of
enslavement as it is f