{"product_id":"9781609385699","title":"Visible Dissent: Latin American Writers, Small U.S. Presses, and Progressive Social Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Teresa Longo’s groundbreaking examination reveals, North America’s dissident literature has its roots in the Latin American literary tradition. From Pablo Neruda’s \u003ci\u003eCanto General \u003c\/i\u003eto Eduardo Galeano’s \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America \u003c\/i\u003eto Gabriel García Márquez’s \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e—among others—contemporary writers throughout the Americas have forced us to reconsider the United States’s relationship with Latin America, and more broadly with the Global South. Highlighting the importance of reading and re-reading the Latin American canon in the United States, Longo finds that literature can be an instrument of progressive social change, and argues that small literary presses—City Lights, Curbstone, and Seven Stories—have made that dissent visible in the United States. In the book’s final two chapters on the Robert F. Kennedy Center’s Speak Truth to Power initiative and the publication of Marc Falkoff’s \u003ci\u003ePoems from Guantánamo\u003c\/i\u003e, the author turns our attention further outward, probing the role poetry, theater, and photography play in global human rights work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocating the work of artists and writers alongside that of scholars and legal advocates, \u003ci\u003eVisible Dissent \u003c\/i\u003enot only unveils the staying-power of committed writing, it honors the cross-currents and the on-the-ground implications of humane political engagement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052748423408,"sku":"9781609385699","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609385699_p0.jpg?v=1763835894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609385699","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}