The fair as a political space: the case of the Frankfurt Book Fair of 1976 as a platform against the dictatorships of the Southern Cone
Abstract
In this case study on the Frankfurt Book Fair of 1976, that had Latin-American literature as its honour guest, I want to analyse how book fairs can act as spaces for political action and political discourses. In the context of the emergence of solidarity movements with the Southern Cone after Pinochet”s military coup in Chile in 1973, I will try to examine how cultural activities in general, and the literary field particularly, served as platforms to condemn the Latin-American military regimes. In the case of the Frankfurt Book Fair of 1976, I want to enquire into the agents and the discourses that transformed that literary sphere into a political space.
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