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It took the white male Anglo literary establishment twelve years to publish Mistral, first Latin American laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in English. Then there's the fact that her relationships, or "passionate friendships" as Wikipedia likes to gloss over, with both men and women gets parsed as either heterosexual or lesbian by the most vocal proponents. Give me a non-monosexual break.
— Jun 04, 2020 10:05AM
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Jun 04, 2020 11:18AM
Honestly, if Langston Hughes, esteemed Black poet, hadn't stepped in when he did, the translation would probably not have been out for another decade, at least.
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