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- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages)
- Summary
- Chronicles the way hyper-masculinity has permeated a wide swath of Dominican culture over the past century, demonstrating how modern attitudes toward masculinity were informed by and evolved from the U.S. military occupation of the island, through Trujillo's dictatorship, and into the manifestations in the present day.
- Uniform Title
- Masculinity after Trujillo (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Masculinity after Trujillo (Online)
- Subject
- 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 (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013029228
- OCLC
- ssj0001082015
- Author
Horn, Maja.
- Title
Masculinity after Trujillo [electronic resource] : the politics of gender in Dominican literature / Maja Horn.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative.