Following three centuries of Spanish colonization, Argentina declared independence in 1816, and Argentine nationalists were instrumental in revolutionary movements elsewhere, a fact that prompted 20th-century writer Jorge Luis Borges to observe, "South America's independence was, to a great extent, an Argentine enterprise".
All that makes racial shape-shifters a fantastic opportunity for a writer: they've got Huck Finn's independence, an identity in turmoil, a secret that could destroy their world, a refusal to be defined by others and a vantage on race that very few ever get to have.
At the end of May 1997, 50 years after India's independence, 11 Indian writers were brought together in London by the New Yorker magazine for a group photograph celebrating the world-wide success of contemporary Indian writing.
Communist China's curious posthumous cult of Lu Xun tells us a good deal about how Mao and his successors have tried to cope with the writer's argumentative brand of intellectual independence.
Among them are Columbus Ave . named for Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of the area, and José Mart', named for a famous Cuban writer and independence fighter.
Writer attended two independence celebrations.
In his view, a writer needed "total independence" to create literature that would be "eternal".
For readers and writers, true independence seems to mean financial as well as intellectual separation from the powers-that-be.
However, having established Denise's fierce independence, the writers load the dice to wind up their story, undercutting that sense of freedom of choice vital to both Bobby and Denise.
The National's weekday editions sell fewer than 10,000 copies a day and are produced on a tight budget with a skeleton staff, but would be expected to attract some of the Sunday Herald's pro-independence writers.
