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Juan Leon Mera
Juan Leon Mera Martinez was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, journalist, critic, politician and satirist.
Mera is known as the father of Ecuadoran literature, principally for being the author of Cumanda (1879). This is a novel about the clandestine love affair between a young woman from an Amazonian tribe, and the son of a Spanish Dominican friar. Their relationship is doubly doomed: not only because it is opposed by the girl's father, but also because it is ultimately revealed that the pair are in fact brother and sister. Yet the moral of the story is that people can change: the indigenous ...
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