This study considers the roles of journalists and academics in the US, Brazil, and Hispanic America who used fiction as a way to reframe Latin American history during the period. The first two chapters overview the parallel development of historiographic and literary historical criticism in the second half of the 20th century, offering an overview of postwar cultural history and literary revisionism during the period. The next six chapters examine pairs of novels and other texts from the three broad regions, by writers including Toms̀ Eloy Mart̕nez, Laura Antillano, Ana Maria Machado, Silviano Santiago, John Updike, and Jay Cantor. The study demonstrates that these writers created false documents and false eyewitness accounts in order to highlight government misrepresentation of events. Two chapters are devoted to the commodification of Che Guevara. B&w photos are included. Annotation 2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
