Stephanie’s Reviews > The Opposing Thumb: Decoding Literature of the Marcos Regime > Status Update

Casper proposes authors could possibly've evade authorities by writing in English, presumed elitist to impact peasants.

"As one writer suggests, 'Good literature, of course, is always subversive-- not in that it advances ideologies or is politicized, for that is not its function; but in that it observes and tells the truth of what it sees. Were it to propose specific solutions or endorse political creeds, it would lose this independence and it credibility."

I don't necessarily agree, just wanted to record where the author comes from