Masculinity After Trujillo - The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature

Informationen zum Autor Maja Horn is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American cultures at Barnard College. Klappentext "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." Zusammenfassung Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice a hyper-masculinity that has permeated the culture. Most critics will attribute this to an outgrowth of “traditional” Latin American patriarchal culture. Masculinity After Trujillo demonstrates why they are mistaken.

Product details

• Authors: Maja Horn
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9780813049304
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-4930-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies