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  • Chapter 2 - Latin American Archives and Human Matter

  • Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book:
    Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature
    Published online:
    18 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022, pp 24-45

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the historical background of the secret police and intelligence archives used in this book and describes how they came into the public domain: the Guatemalan National Police Archive, the Mexican Federal Security Directorate Archive (DFS); the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) Archive and the National Information Center (CNI) Archive, as well as Colonia Dignidad's Archive; and the Uruguayan Service of Intelligence and Liason (SIE) Archive. It then analyzes Rodrigo Rey Rosa's text Human Matter as a literary example of the uses and intricacies of the archive. It studies how the novel discusses the inside and outside of the archive, as well as the notions of time and space that the archive produces. Finally, it examines Human Matter as an analysis of Guatemala's past and present after the genocide of the 1980s.