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

• Autore: Horn Maja
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 860.9/97293
• Soggetto topico: Dominican literature - History and criticism; Masculinity - Dominican Republic; Masculinity in literature; Gender identity - Dominican Republic; Men - Dominican Republic - Psychology
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Masculinity after Trujillo
• ISBN: 0-8130-5012-X; 0-8130-4899-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827711403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II