This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic.
Deysis life narrative is a microhistory that sheds light on the intersection of gender, violence, and poverty under the Trujillo regime and in its wake. Her story recovers pieces of rural life, which has been disrupted, transformed, and made less visible by the neoliberal order. It emphasizes the significance of expanding the Trujillo regime archive to encompass a broader spectrum of perspectives and attract more scholarly attention to Petán Trujillos legacies. Deysis life story can provide meaningful lessons and insights for today in the realm of gendered violence and childrens exploitation.
This book is intended as reading for sociology, gender and womens studies, history, Latin American politics, and Caribbean and Latin American Studies courses and for a general educated audience. The book intersects with topics that are widely covered in research in the humanities and social sciences and is appropriate for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. The book can appeal to human rights activists, novelists, and individuals and organizations interested in history, politics, authoritarian societies, and gendered violence.
1 Introduction: Gender and Violence: La Vida Trágica de una Niña
Tia Deysi
The Essential Perspective of Gender and Violence
Unveiling the Layers of Tia Deysis Life Narrative
Historical Shifts and Trends
Self and Identity
Political Views and Ideologies
Memory and Inclusion
Tia Deysi, Petan: Dominican History and Memory
2 "Fate" and "Trauma": The Creation of a Life Story
Spawned from Herminias Whim
The Curse
More Evidence
With Papas Gun
Running Scared
Unfathomable: The Abandonment
Crushing Events
Bad Decision-Makers
Almost Raped
Moments of Joy
The Ultimate Betrayal of Trust
Authors Corner: Context and Interpretation
3 Echoes of Fate and Trauma: From Childhood to Adolescence
Work and Punishment and No Love
Sick and Slandered
Fear and Obedience
A Teacher Makes a Difference
Finding God and Safety
A Predator Father
First Love
Dangerous Beauty
Sold to Petan Trujillo
Learning to Please Petan
Authors Corner: Context and Interpretations
4 Being One of Petáns Women in Bonao
Power and Fear
Intimacy with Petan
Special Conversation
Beauty and Glamour
The Other Women
The End of the Affair
God and Survival
Leaving Bonao
Making Sense of the Petan Experience
Beaten Up
Saying Goodbye to Mercedita
March 2022: Returning to Bonao for the First Time Since 1960
Authors Corner: Context and Interpretations
5 The Warrior Mother: The Warrior Woman
Gualey 19611965
Love, Loss, Work, and Motherhood
The Greatest Joy
Herminias Love
Motherhood, Marital Conflict, and Entrepreneurship
My Brothers Assassination
Life in Santiago: 19721977
A Hard Knock Life
Back in Capotillo: 19771983
Guaricano (1983): Divorce, New Beginnings, and New Challenges
Authors Corner: Context and Interpretations
6 Contemplations and Reckonings
The Filters of Age and Gender
Work, Sacrifice, and Pain
Looking Back: Tia Deysis Regrets
Telling Ones Life: Tia Deysis Insight on her Life Narrative
7 Epilogue: Five Reflections
Gender and Violence: Bridging the Dominican Past and Present
Thinking Methods
Interviewing My Aunt
Dealing with Problems
Biases
Translation
Editing
The Formalities of the Interview and Publication Processes
On Power
Gender in Contemporary Dominican Society
Foundations of Despotism
Dominican Memory
Borron y Cuenta Nueva: A Closer Look
Facilities of Memory and Memory Work
Memory of the Martyrs of the Resistance
The Narrative of Redemption
Trujillo in Dominican Culture
The Trujillo Ven a Ver Discourse: Linking Dictator Trujillo with the Present
Corrective Impulses: Laws of Memory
Ana S.Q. Liberato is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She is the author of Joaquín Balaguer, Memory, and Diaspora: The Lasting Political Legacies of an American Protégé (2013). Her research interests include inequalities of race, gender and class, political sociology, international migration, and cultural studies.
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