Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, Carlos Cerda, and other writers, from archives in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Uruguay, the German Democratic Republic, and the USA. Combining literary and cultural analysis, history, philosophy, and history of art, it establishes a critical dialogue between the spies' surveillance and the writers' novels, short stories, and poems, and presents a new take on Latin American modernity, tracing the trajectory of a modern gaze from the Italian Renaissance to the Cold War. It traces the origins of today's surveillance society with sense of urgency and consequence that should appeal to academic and non-academic readers alike throughout the Americas, Europe and beyond.
ISBN-13: 9781009153607
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 08-25-2022
Pages: 250
Product Dimensions: 6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)
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.
Table of Contents
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 RevΔs, Otto René Castillo, and Mario Payeras.
