Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Boston Northeastern University)

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A new take on Latin American literature that analyzes secret police reports on writers and advances readings of their novels, short stories, and poems. It examines modernity, and the modern gaze, from the Italian Renaissance to the authoritarian regimes in Cold War Latin as the origins of today's surveillance society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781009153607
• ISBN-10: 1009153609
• Artikelnr.: 63594319

Autorenporträt

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture at Northeastern University. He has written about avant-garde, realism, and poverty. His most recent book, En tiempo fugitivo (2016) is a 'fundamental essay' about contemporary literature. He also writes for newspapers in Chile. He is currently working on a project about football and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

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.