The dictator's seduction : politics and the popular imagination in the era of Trujillo / Lauren Derby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derby, Lauren.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.

Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas.

Dominican Republic--Social conditions.

Dominican Republic.

Social conditions.

Dominican Republic--Politics and government--1930-1961.

Politics and government.

Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 410 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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 Seduction is 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 place for Dominicans to hide or resist.

Contents:

The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922

San Zenón and the making of Ciudad Trujillo

The master of ceremonies

Compatriotas! el jefe calls

Clothes make the man

Trujillo's two bodies

Papá Liborio and the morality of rule

Charisma and the gift of recognition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822344865

0822344866

9780822344827

0822344823

OCLC:

297206745