The Latin American literary boom and U.S. nationalism during the Cold War

The Latin American literary boom and U.S. nationalism during the Cold War / Deborah Cohn.

"During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in the United States. Deborah Cohn documen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohn, Deborah N., 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2012.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection.
Subjects:
PEN (Organization) > Influence.
Center for Inter-American Relations > Influence.
Center for Inter-American Relations
PEN (Organization)
1900-1999
Spanish American literature > 20th century > Appreciation > United States.
Spanish American literature > Translations into English > History and criticism.
Spanish American literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
International relations
Spanish American literature > Appreciation
Spanish American literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Spanish American literature > Translations into English
Latin America > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Latin America.
Latin America
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Catch-28" : the McCarran-Walter immigration blacklist and Latin American writers
  • PEN and the sword : Latin American writers and the 1966 Pen Club Congress
  • Latin America and its literature in the U.S. university after the Cuban Revolution
  • The "cold war struggle" for Latin American literature in the Center for Inter-American Relations.

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