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Suture as the Seam Between Literatures

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Ownership of art and, by implication, of literature as an art form cannot be attributed to a single individual as if he or she were living or writing alone in a vacuum. This is because culture has collective ownership. Thus a writer gives voice to a collective experience. Even when recording particular experiences of individuals as unique characters the author, as well as the literary characters, form part of a collective culture. The attempt of an individual who belongs to a minority group to derive a sense of identity which incorporates and reconciles his or her idiosyncratic vision of the world with the society around him or her, by bridging the split in the identity, is ...

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