Abstract
Latin America's last three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature are ‘Communist subversives’, according to the USA
Professor Angel Rama is one of Latin America's foremost literary critics, who has taught at many major universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He has published prolifically, including fourteen books on Latin American literature as well as scores of anthologies, critical editions, prologues and essays. In exile from his native Uruguay, he is currently Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Maryland, USA. However, in March 1982, the US immigration authorities suddenly announced that his permit to stay in the country would not be renewed (see Index on Censorship 3/1983 p 15). So Professor Rama became the latest in a considerable line of Latin American intellectuals to be banned from the USA for political reasons under the notorious Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, known as the McCarran-Walter Act. He is currently in Paris to do research for a major book on Latin American cultural history, and awaiting the result of his appeal against the order. In the following article, which is edited from a longer original in Quimera (Barcelona) No 26, December 1982, Professor Rama considers the background to the action against him.
Other articles dealing with this problem have appeared in Index 5/1980 p 6, 1/1981 p 38, and 3/1983 p 13. See also the Index Index entries under the USA in Index 2/1973, 3/1976, 4/1981 and 2/1983.