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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827711403321

Autore

Horn Maja

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5012-X

0-8130-4899-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/97293

Soggetti

Dominican literature - History and criticism

Masculinity - Dominican Republic

Masculinity in literature

Gender identity - Dominican Republic

Men - Dominican Republic - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.