LEADER 03243nam 22004573a 450 001 9910645964003321 005 20230124202305.0 010 $a1-4780-9072-3 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390862 035 $a(CKB)5460000000185170 035 $a(ScCtBLL)33ad419a-5320-4ccf-9fe4-5152a36a04fa 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000185170 100 $a20211214i20092021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Dictator's Seduction : $ePolitics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo /$fGilbert M. Joseph, Lauren H. Derby, Emily S. Rosenberg 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cDuke University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Encounters/Global Interactions 330 $aThe dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator's Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a "vernacular politics" based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo's exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo's regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the ti?guere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator's Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power. 410 $aAmerican Encounters/Global Interactions 606 $aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Latin America$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Caribbean & West Indies$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social 615 7$aHistory / Latin America 615 7$aHistory / Caribbean & West Indies 615 0$aHistory 702 $aJoseph$b Gilbert M 702 $aDerby$b Lauren H 702 $aRosenberg$b Emily S 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645964003321 996 $aThe Dictator's Seduction$93007471 997 $aUNINA