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Latin America’s need to remember a darker past is influencing literature. Books in brief: Exemplary Humans, Juliana Leite
Exemplary Humans, Juliana Leite, translated by Zoë Perry, 2026, Two Lines Press
By Gavin O’Toole
Memory is an increasingly important theme in Latin America and the subject of considerable scholarship that makes the region something of an outrider in this field.
The fragility of young democracies is the main reason why scholarship into processes of memory c…