Masculinity After Trujillo
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1916-1924
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anti-Haitianism
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Caribbean
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colonialism
dictatorship
Dominican Republic
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femininity
gender
globalization
hegemony
Hilma Contreras
history
imperialism
in novels
Latin America
literary criticism
literature
Maja Horn
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
media
migration
neoliberalism
novelas
psychological infrastructure
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
sexuality
tourism
tropicalizing
trujillato
U.S.
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- ISBN 9780813049304
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2014
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice the prevalence of certain notions of hyper-masculinity. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that these gender conceptions became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-1961) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the U.S. military occupation that preceded it.
Where previous studies have focused mainly on Spanish colonialism and the sharing of the island with Haiti, Horn emphasizes the underexamined and lasting influence of U.S. imperialism and how it prepared the terrain for Trujillo's hyperbolic language of masculinity. She also demonstrates how later attempts to emasculate the image of Trujillo often reproduced the same masculinist ideology popularized by his government.
Through the lens of gender politics, Horn enables readers to reconsider the ongoing legacy of the Trujillato, including the relatively weak social movements formed around racial and ethnic identities, sexuality, and even labor. She offers exciting new interpretations of such writers as Hilma Contreras, Rita Indiana Hernández, and Junot Díaz, revealing the ways they challenge dominant political and canonical literary discourses.
Where previous studies have focused mainly on Spanish colonialism and the sharing of the island with Haiti, Horn emphasizes the underexamined and lasting influence of U.S. imperialism and how it prepared the terrain for Trujillo's hyperbolic language of masculinity. She also demonstrates how later attempts to emasculate the image of Trujillo often reproduced the same masculinist ideology popularized by his government.
Through the lens of gender politics, Horn enables readers to reconsider the ongoing legacy of the Trujillato, including the relatively weak social movements formed around racial and ethnic identities, sexuality, and even labor. She offers exciting new interpretations of such writers as Hilma Contreras, Rita Indiana Hernández, and Junot Díaz, revealing the ways they challenge dominant political and canonical literary discourses.
Maja Horn is assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American cultures at Barnard College, New York, USA
