Between the Pen and the Rifle

No period in Latin American history has been as thoroughly studied as the 1960s. Amid this proliferation of texts, Claudia Gilman's Between the Pen and the Rifle stands out as a singular work: comprehensive yet exhaustive, intelligent yet entertaining, and as accessible as it is sophisticated. The a...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1767332026-05-20T09:19:34Z Between the Pen and the Rifle Gilman, Claudia Wolpin (Trans.), Rebecca Aguilar (Foreword), Gonzalo 1960s and 1970s History of Literature Intellectual History Latin American literary magazines Literature and political commitment Sociology of intellectuals thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSM Comparative literature thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history No period in Latin American history has been as thoroughly studied as the 1960s. Amid this proliferation of texts, Claudia Gilman's Between the Pen and the Rifle stands out as a singular work: comprehensive yet exhaustive, intelligent yet entertaining, and as accessible as it is sophisticated. The author dissects the “fourteen prodigious years” between the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the fall of Salvador Allende's government in 1973. Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, and Montevideo, the nerve centers of the period, are the axes around which the central debates revolve. Gilman analyzes the functioning of the cultural market, the connections between literary genres and social transformations, and, especially, the vicissitudes of magazines such as Marcha, Mundo Nuevo, Casa de las Américas, and Libre, which reflect different facets of literary and cultural life. It is the survival of the “critical ideal” (against the subordination of truth to politics) that allows the author to narrate history and unfold it before our eyes in order to construct a genealogy of the specificity of critical independence and the affirmation of intellectual autonomy in Latin America. 2026-05-20T09:19:33Z 2026-05-20T09:19:33Z 2026-05-19T12:51:34Z 2026 book ONIX_20260519T105721_9781951634599_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113231 9781951634599 9781951634582 9781951634605 9781951634612 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176733 eng The Latin American Intellectual History Series open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113231/1/9781951634599.pdf LASA Press Latin American Studies Association 10.25154/book17 10.25154/book17 bf1ff455-ad65-4529-8460-348e36bdd795 3212b33c-ef11-48ab-aa44-89829494ce44 9781951634599 9781951634582 9781951634605 9781951634612 Latin American Studies Association 414 Pittsburgh, USA [...] open access
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Between the Pen and the Rifle
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History of Literature
Intellectual History
Latin American literary magazines
Literature and political commitment
Sociology of intellectuals
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