| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Seeing it all: Perspectiva, panopticon, panorama, and the archive -- Latin American archives and Human matter -- Cultural Cold War: anticommunism, Asturias, Neruda, and the Continental Cultural Congress of 1953 -- Spying and knowledge: the Stasi and the file of Carlos Cerda -- Reading like a spy: censorship in Chile -- Writing like a spy: intelligence services in Guatemala and Mexico -- Spying like a writer: Gabriel García Márquez, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, and Mario Payeras |
| Summary |
"Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel García 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."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Born in Chile in the 70s, Daniel Noemi Voionmaa is a cultural critic, chronicler, and scholar of Latin American Literatures and Cultures. He teaches at Northeastern University in Boston, and writes for El Desconcierto.cl |
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Print version record |
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Mexican literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Mexican literature -- Political aspects
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Chilean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Chilean literature -- Political aspects
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Guatemalan literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Guatemalan literature -- Political aspects
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Uruguayan literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Uruguayan literature -- Political aspects
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Surveillance in literature.
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Cold War in literature.
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Uruguayan literature
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Surveillance in literature
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Mexican literature
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Guatemalan literature
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
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Chilean literature
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009153591 |
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1009153595 |
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1009191217 |
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9781009191210 |
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