Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas.

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Jossianna Arroyo is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at The University of Texas at Austin.

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1. On Secrecy: Freemasonry and Affective Politics 2. Hauntings: Americanisms in Andrés Cassard and Albert Pike 3. Technologies: Caribbean Knowledges, Imperial Critiques 1860-1900 4. Writing Secrecy: Modernismos and the Opus of the Word 5. Urgency and Possibility: Afro-Latin@ Identities