Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781009153607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa

Opis

Analyzes spy reports on writers from Gabriel García Márquez to José Revueltas, alongside their writings, in Latin America's Cold War.

Recenzje

'Ambitious and deeply researched, accomplished and consistently illuminating, Daniel Noemi Voionmaa's fascinating study combines resourceful, nuanced readings of a wide range of disparate materials with a sense of urgency and consequence that should appeal to academic and non-academic readers alike throughout the Americas, Europe, and beyond.' Jonathan B. Monroe, Cornell University

Spis treści

1. Seeing it all: Perspectiva, panopticon, panorama, and the archive; 2. Latin American archives and human matter; 3. Cultural Cold War: Anticommunism, Asturias, Neruda, and the continental cultural congress of 1953; 4. Spying and knowledge: The Stasi and the file of Carlos Cerda; 5. Reading like a spy: Censorship in Chile; 6. Writing like a spy: Intelligence services in Guatemala and Mexico; 7. Spying like a writer: Gabriel García Márquez, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, and Mario Payeras.