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

Name: Dictator's Seduction Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
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ISBN: 9780822344827

ISBN-10: 0822344823

ISBN-13: 9780822344827

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lauren H. Derby, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Lauren H. Derby

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The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history.The Dictator's Seductionis a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a "vernacular politics" based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English