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

Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. Many critics will attribute this to an outgrowth of "traditional" Latin American patriarchal culture. Masculinity after Trujillo demonstrates why th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horn, Maja (Autor)
Autores Corporativos: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.