Masculinity after Trujillo
Subtitle: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780813049304
Subjects: Dominican literature; Masculinity in literature; Gender identity; Men, psychology; Dominican republic, social conditions
Description: 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.