Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the author of Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas.

Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Preface. The Censorship Files

1. Publishing Matters: The Boom and Its Players

                The New Rules of Censorship
                The New Seix Barral
                Bitching About the Boom

2. The Writer in the Barracks: Mario Vargas Llosa Facing Censorship

                Facing the Censors, Facing the Market
                The Marketing of Military Literature

3. Cuban Nights Falling: The Revolutionary Silences of Guillermo Cabrera Infante

                The Cuban Connection: Spain and the "Infantes of the Revolution"
                Silencing the Cuban Revolution: From "Vista del amanecer en el trópico" to Tres tristes tigres
                Censorship Remains: A Revolutionary's Career

4. From Melquíades to Vernet: How Gabriel García Márquez Escaped Spanish Censorship

                Wise and Unwise Catalans               
                García Márquez and His "Familiar" Censors
                A Citizen Censor

5. Betrayed by Censorship: Manuel Puig Declassified

                Betrayed by the Marketplace
                Betrayed by Aunt Clara
                "Playing 'Toro'" Betrayed by Ms. Hayworth

Epilogue. Legends of the Boom: Latin American Publishing Revisited

Notes
Works Cited
Index