| God and Trujillo: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator Contributor(s): López-Calvo, Ignacio (Author) |
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ISBN: 081302823X ISBN-13: 9780813028231 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2005 Annotation: Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, is still heavily mythologized among Dominicans to this day. "God and Trujillo, the first book length study of works about the Dominican dictator, seeks to explain how some of those myths were created by analyzing novels and testimonials about Trujillo from Dominican writers to canonical Latin American authors, including Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia MC!rquez. Trujillo'd quasi-mythological figure created a compelling corpus of literary works. Ignacio LC3-Cccalvo's study offers a vigorous analysis of 36 narrative texts. He analyzes the representation of the dictator as a mythological figure, his legacy, the role of his doubles, his favorite courtiers and acolytes, and the role of women during the so-called Era of Trujillo. He also traces the evolution and significance of these narratives from a theoretical perspective that falls within the cultural studies framework. The study of the Dominican "testimonio and the unveiling of the Taino myth in the "Trujillatonarratives" are particularly innovative. In addition, he describes class antagonism and the demythification of the leftists militant in the Trujillato narratives. He also offers an illuminating account of the Dominican left and of the anti-Trujillo resistance as contained in Dominican literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Politics |
| Dewey: 863.609 |
| LCCN: 2005040774 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.34" W x 9.3" (0.99 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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| Publisher Description: Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, is still heavily mythologized among Dominicans to this day. God and Trujillo, the first book-length study of works about the Dominican dictator, seeks to explain how some of those myths were created by analyzing novels and testimonials about Trujillo from Dominican writers to canonical Latin American authors, including Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garc a M rquez. Trujillo's quasi-mythological figure created a compelling corpus of literary works. Ignacio L pez-Calvo's study offers a vigorous analysis of 36 narrative texts. He analyzes the representation of the dictator as a mythological figure, his legacy, the role of his doubles, his favorite courtiers and acolytes, and the role of women during the so-called Era of Trujillo.He also traces the evolution and significance of these narratives from a theoretical perspective that falls within the cultural studies framework. The study of the Dominican testimonio and the unveiling of the Taino myth in the "Trujillato narratives" are particularly innovative. In addition, he describes class antagonism and the demythification of the leftist militant in the Trujillato narratives. He also offers an illuminating account of the Dominican left and of the anti-Trujillo resistance as contained in Dominican literature. |