Masculinity after Trujillo [electronic resource] : the politics of gender in Dominican literature / Maja Horn.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horn, Maja (Author)
Corporate Authors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Subjects:
Dominican literature > History and criticism.
Masculinity > Dominican Republic.
Masculinity in literature.
Gender identity > Dominican Republic.
Men > Dominican Republic > Psychology.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2014 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Format: Electronic eBook
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.