The Holocaust, the Twenty Million Soviet War Dead, the United Fruit Company, and Gabriel García Márquez

Authors

  • Gene Bell-Villada Williams College

Keywords:

Marxism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism

Abstract

This note discusses the political use of the Holocaust in favor of America's anti-communism; likewise, it links the "amnesia" of the real weight of the Holocaust with the abuses of American´s companies in Latin-America and their subsequent oblivion.

Author Biography

Gene Bell-Villada, Williams College

Gene Bell-Villada es profesor del Williams College. Sus obras incluyen la novela The Carlos Chadwick Mystery: A Novel of College Life and Political Terror, la colección de cuentos The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand, y los libros de crítica Art for Art's Sake and the Literary Life, Borges And His Fiction; A Guide To His Mind And Art y Garcia Marquez: The Man And His Work.

Published

2007-12-01

How to Cite

Bell-Villada, G. (2007). The Holocaust, the Twenty Million Soviet War Dead, the United Fruit Company, and Gabriel García Márquez. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(2), 153–159. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/277

Issue

Section

Notes / Notas