Dictator''s Seduction - Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo

Informationen zum Autor Lauren Derby Klappentext "Beautifully written and meticulously researched, "The Dictator's Seduction" is essential reading for scholars of repressive regimes and the machinery of violence that keeps dictators in power. Rafael Trujillo insinuated himself into his citizens' public and private lives. Lauren Derby connects Trujillo's backstage political machinations and private obsessions with his public image and spectacles."--Denise Brennan, author of "What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic" Zusammenfassung An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillo s dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republic s capital, Santo Domingo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Populism as Vernacular Practice 1 1. The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922 25 2. San Zenón and the Making of Cuidad Trujillo 66 3. The Master of Ceremonies 109 4. Compatriotas! El Jefe Calls 135 5. Clothes Make the Man 173 6. Trujillo's Two Bodies 204 7. Papá Liborio and the Morality of Rule 227 Conclusion. Charisma and the Gift of Recognition 257 Notes 267 Bibliography 353 Index 393

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Derby, Lauren H Derby, Lauren H. Derby, Lauren Hutchinson Derby
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2009
• EAN: 9780822344827
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4482-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous