God and Trujillo: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator - Hardcover

L�pez-Calvo, Ignacio

9780813028231: God and Trujillo: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081302823X ISBN 13: 9780813028231

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2005

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.

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Book Description:

"A timely treatise on the 'truth' about Trujillo as documented in fictional and nonfictional accounts of that unforgettable epoch in world history."--James J. Davis, Howard University "This book rescues from oblivion the voice of numerous relevant Dominican authors and demythifies from a new perspective the concept of Dominican national identity."--Jos� I. Su�rez, University of Northern Colorado 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.

About the Author:

Ignacio L�pez-Calvo is associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present and Religi�n y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis, 1963-2000.

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