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Masculinity after Trujillo the politics of gender in Dominican literature / Maja Horn.
| Author/creator | Horn, Maja |
| Other author | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
| Other author | Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] |
| Description | xvi, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General 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 restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013029228 |
| ISBN | 9780813049304 (hardcover : alk. paper) |