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Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature By Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature by Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)

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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.

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature Summary

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature by Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, Jose Revueltas, Otto Rene 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.

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'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

About Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)

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 Garcia Marquez, Jose Revueltas, Otto Rene Castillo, and Mario Payeras.

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Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature by Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)
Daniel Noemi Voionmaa (Northeastern University, Boston)
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Cambridge University Press
2022-08-25
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