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The Latin American literary boom and U.S. nationalism during the Cold War / Deborah Cohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohn, Deborah N., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish American literature--20th century--Appreciation--United States.
- Spanish American literature.
- Spanish American literature--Translations into English--History and criticism.
- Spanish American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Latin America--Relations--United States.
- Latin America.
- United States--Relations--Latin America.
- United States.
- PEN (Organization)--Influence.
- PEN (Organization).
- Center for Inter-American Relations--Influence.
- Center for Inter-American Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How the dissemination of Latin American literature in the U.S. was "caught between the desire to support the literary revolution of the Boom writers and the fear of revolutionary politics" (John King).
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613716545
- 9781280875236
- 1280875232
- 9780826518064
- 0826518060
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