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

by Ignacio López-Calvo

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081302823X
• ISBN13: 9780813028231
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"