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.
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Preface. The Censorship Files
1. Publishing Matters: The Boom and Its Players
The New Rules of Censorship
The New Seix Barral
Bitching About the Boom
2. The Writer in the Barracks: Mario Vargas Llosa Facing Censorship
Facing the Censors, Facing the Market
The Marketing of Military Literature
3. Cuban Nights Falling: The Revolutionary Silences of Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The Cuban Connection: Spain and the "Infantes of the Revolution"
Silencing the Cuban Revolution: From "Vista del amanecer en el trópico" to Tres tristes tigres
Censorship Remains: A Revolutionary's Career
4. From Melquíades to Vernet: How Gabriel García Márquez Escaped Spanish Censorship
Wise and Unwise Catalans
García Márquez and His "Familiar" Censors
A Citizen Censor
5. Betrayed by Censorship: Manuel Puig Declassified
Betrayed by the Marketplace
Betrayed by Aunt Clara
"Playing 'Toro'" Betrayed by Ms. Hayworth
Epilogue. Legends of the Boom: Latin American Publishing Revisited
Notes
Works Cited
Index