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Author Horn, Maja, author.

Title Masculinity after Trujillo : the politics of gender in Dominican literature / Maja Horn.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "This book is a part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture publication initiative, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The politics of gender in the Caribbean -- De-tropicalizing the Trujillo dictatorship and Dominican masculinity -- One phallus for another: post-dictatorship political and literary canons -- Engendering resistance: Hilma Contreras's counternarratives -- Still loving Papi: globalized dominican subjectivities in the novels of Rita Indiana Hernández -- How not to read Junot Díaz: diasporic Dominican masculinity and its returns -- Conclusion.
Summary Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. Many critics will attribute this to an outgrowth of "traditional" Latin American patriarchal culture. Masculinity after Trujillo demonstrates why they are mistaken. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican attitude became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-61) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the U.S. military occupation that preceded it. Where previous studies have focused mainly on Spanish colonialism and the controversial sharing of the island with Haiti, Horn emphasizes the underexamined and lasting influence of U.S. imperialism and how it prepared the terrain for Trujillo's hyperbolic language of masculinity. She also demonstrates how later attempts to emasculate the image of Trujillo often reproduced the same masculinist ideology popularized by his government. By using the lens of gender politics, Horn enables readers to reconsider the ongoing legacy of the Trujillato, including the relatively weak social movements formed around racial and ethnic identities, sexuality, and even labor. She offers exciting new interpretations of such writers as Hilma Contreras, Rita Indiana Hernández, and Junot Díaz, revealing the ways they successfully challenge dominant political and canonical literary discourses.
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Subject Dominican literature -- History and criticism.
Dominican literature.
Masculinity -- Dominican Republic.
Masculinity.
Dominican Republic.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Gender identity -- Dominican Republic.
Gender identity.
Men -- Dominican Republic -- Psychology.
Men.
Psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Subject Gender identity.
Men.
Added Author Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative.
Other Form: Print version: Horn, Maja. Masculinity after Trujillo. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] 9780813049304 (DLC) 2013029228 (OCoLC)830946980
ISBN 9780813048994 (electronic book)
0813048990 (electronic book)
9780813049304
081304930X