Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Politics of Gender in the Caribbean 1 1. De-tropicalizing the Trujillo Dictatorship and Dominican Masculinity 23 2. One Phallus for Another: Post-dictatorship Political and Literary Canons 50 3. Engendering Resistance: Hilma Contreras’s Counternarratives 80 4. Still Loving Papi: Globalized Dominican Subjectivities in the Novels of Rita Indiana Hernández 102 5. How Not to Read Junot Díaz: Diasporic Dominican Masculinity and Its Returns 123 Conclusion 139 Notes 145 Bibliography 183 Index 193 This page intentionally left blank ...