Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor
Fact and Fiction in an FBI Investigation of Brazilian Literature during World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2836087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Gabriella Gatti (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 449-480 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-9798291 |
| OpenAlex | W4285384725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
Brazilian novelist Érico Veríssimo (1905-75) was an ambiguous subject of the Good Neighbor Policy: invited to the United States by the Department of State, he was also accused of anti-Americanism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). An international police investigation into Veríssimo shows a Brazilian-US network in which literature is questioned both as a potential vehicle for subversion and as representative of its political context. Archival sources related to this investigation reveal how police agents searched for clues within fiction and how ideology often got lost in translation. Through a close reading of these sources, I explore the function of literature and the processes for its interpretation in political culture. This essay, by probing the contradictions of the Good Neighbor Policy and the transition from World War II to the Cold War, reveals how Brazilian and US police in collaboration applied the anti-Axis counterintelligence apparatus to the surveillance of Allied literature
Context (archaeology) · Counterintelligence · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subversion · World War II · Brazilian cultural history and politics · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath
War & Press Freedom
Neither Peace nor Freedom
The Distinction of Fiction
Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Marxism and Literature
Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs (1940-1946) and Record Group 229
The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War
Americans All
The Field of Cultural Production
Genevieve Naylor, a Good Neighbor Photographer in Brazil (1941-42)
The Western Hemisphere Idea
The FBI in Latin America
Writers on the Left
Open Veins of Latin America
The Boss
We Cannot Remain Silent
Your Americanism and Mine
Algeria, France, Mexico, Unesco
The Invention of Latin America
Thinking the Nation
The Journal Cadernos Brasileiros and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1959-1970
Érico Veríssimo, a Brazilian Cultural Ambassador in the United States
Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor
"Em guarda contra o "perigo vermelho
No Higher Law
Brazilian Literature. An Outline
Making Art Panamerican
Race and Class in Rural Brazil
Threads and Traces
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |