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- Title
Anti-Haitian Rhetoric and the Monumentalizing of Violence in Joaquín Balaguer's "Guía emocional de la ciudad romántica."
- Authors
Serrata, Médar
- Abstract
This essay compares four editions of the book "Guía emocional de la ciudad romántica," by the Dominican author and politician Joaquín Balaguer. The book, a celebration of Santo Domingo's monumental architecture, evokes the topos of the romantic poet who strolls down the streets of an ancient city admiring the remnants of the past. A closer examination, however, reveals a text deeply invested in the monumentalizing of violence—a text that portrays the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo as the savior of the nation. Moreover, the metaphorical stroll that the reader is invited to take reenacts the movement of history in order to justify the 1937 massacre of thousands of Haitians living in Dominican territory.
- Subjects
SANTO Domingo (Dominican Republic); DOMINICAN Republic; GUIA emocional de la ciudad romantica (Book); BALAGUER, Joaquin, 1906-2002; VIOLENCE in literature; DOMINICAN-Haitian Conflict, 1937; TRUJILLO, Rafael, 1891-1961; POLITICS &; literature; ARCHITECTURE; HISTORY
- Publication
Hispanic Review, 2013, Vol 81, Issue 3, p263
- ISSN
0018-2176
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/hir.2013.0024