FORMACIONES LITERARIAS EN LATINOAMÉRICA Y GUERRA FRÍA

Abstract

In this paper, we carry out a general analysis of the controversies about the social role of the writer in Cold War Latin America, specially in 1960’s, when social pressure compeals intellectuals into action. We use the marxist concept of reflection as interpreted by Etienne Balibar: literary texts reflect and reproduce social contradictions, and thus can produce actual effects in society. The criticism we found in different fields of Latin American culture constitutes an ideological election of a wide group of authors among Latin American intellectuality, taking aspirations of Cuban Revolution as a major referent.