The Censorship Files - Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

Informationen zum Autor Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the author of Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas . Klappentext Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and the all-powerful literary agent Carmen Balcells. The author details the fascinating story of how novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market. This colorful account underpins a compelling claim that even the most innovative and aesthetically challenging literature has its roots in the economics of the book trade, as well as the institutions of government and the exigencies of everyday politics and ideology.

About the author

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the author of Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas.

Product details

• Authors: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Herrero-Olaizola Alejandro
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780791469866
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6986-6
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Latin American; SUNY Series in Latin American; Suny Latin American and Iberia; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Latin America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Spanish, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade