Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature Horn Maja
Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature Horn Maja "Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and…
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Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature Horn Maja
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio L pez-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to Caribbean and other Latin American students of the intersection of history, political power, and gendered practices and discourses."--Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban NationAny observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. Masculinity after Trujillo demonstrates why they are mistaken.In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican Many critics will attribute this to an outgrowth of "traditional" Latin American patriarchal culture.
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