Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature

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.

• 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 Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, and Mario Payeras.

'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