Homeland Security Ate My Speech

Born in Argentina in 1942, ARIEL DORFMAN spent ten years as a child in New York, until his family was forced out of the United States by the persecution of McCarthy. The Dorfmans ended up in Chile, where Ariel spent his adolescence and youth, living through the Allende revolution and the subsequent resistance inside Chile, and abroad after the dictatorship that overthrew Allende in 1973. Accompanied by the love of his life, Angélica, to whom he has been married for over fifty years, he wandered the globe as an exile, finally settling down in the United States, where he is now Walter Hines Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University, though he keeps a house in Chile where he and Angelica travel frequently. They are blessed with a large family and many dear friends. Dorfman’s acclaimed work (which includes the play and film Death and the Maiden and the classic text about cultural imperialism, How to Read Donald Duck) covers almost every genre available (plays, novels, short stories, fiction, essays, journalism, opinion pieces, memoirs, screenplays). In all them, he has won major awards, leading to accolades from Time ("a literary grandmaster"), Newsweek ("one of the greatest novelists coming out of Latin America"), the Washington Post ("a world novelist of the first order") and the New York Times ("he has written movingly and often brilliantly of the cultural dislocations and political fractures of his dual heritage").

Praise for Homeland Security Ate My Speech"A worthy addition to the library of resistance." —Kirkus"Dorfman’s critique is personal, intellectual, devastating, and at times bitingly funny." —New York Journal of BooksPraise for Ariel Dorfman"A literary grandmaster." —Time"One of the greatest novelists coming out of Latin America." —Newsweek"A world novelist of the first order." —The Washington Post"[Dorfman] has written movingly and often brilliantly of the cultural dislocations and political fractures of his dual heritage." —The New York TimesSelected AwardsThe Kennedy Center/American Express New Plays Award, 1988, for WidowsRoger L. Stevens Award, Extraordinary Playwrighting, 1991, for ReaderTime Out Award, 1991, for best play in London, Death and the MaidenSir Laurence Olivier Award, 1992, for best play in London, Death and the MaidenLiterary Lion, New York Public Library, 19922001 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and SciencesHonorary DegreesIllinois Wesleyan University, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1989Wooster College, Doctor of Letters, 1991Bradford College, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1993American University, Doctor of Humane Letters, 2001Franklin and Marshall College, Doctor of Humane Letters, 2011

• INTRODUCTION: GRIEVING FOR AMERICAPART ONE: THE RISE OF TRUMP1. Phillip II, the sixteenth century Spanish Monarch, writes to his Excellency Donald Trump2. America Meets Frankenstein3. My mother and Trump’s border4. Latin American Food and the Failure of Trump’s Wall 5. Faulkner’s Question for AmericaPART TWO: THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY1. Now, America, You Know How Chile Felt.2.The River Kwai passes through the Latin America and the Potomac: what it feels like to be tortured.3. Words of encouragement for Donald Trump from James Buchanan, the worst President in U.S. history.4. A message from the end of the world. 5. Mission Akkomplished: From Comrade Bush to Tovaritch Trump.PART THREE: MODELS OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PAST1. Martin Luther King marches on2. Searching for Mandela.3. The Truth that Made Her Free4. Reading Cervantes in Captivity5. Revisiting Melville in ChilePART FOUR: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?1. Homeland Security Ate My Speech.2. Alice in Leftland: Will You, Won’t You Dance?3. They’re Watching Us: So What?4. How we overcame tyranny before.