Journal articles: 'Dominican literature'

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Davidson, Christina Cecelia. "Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation." Church History 89, no. 1 (March 2020): 74–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640720000013.

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AbstractThis article examines North Atlantic views of Protestant missions and race in the Dominican Republic between 1905 and 1911, a brief period of political stability in the years leading up to the U.S. Occupation (1916–1924). Although Protestant missions during this period remained small in scale on the Catholic island, the views of British and American missionaries evidence how international perceptions of Dominicans transformed in the early twentieth century. Thus, this article makes two key interventions within the literature on Caribbean race and religion. First, it shows how outsiders’ ideas about the Dominican Republic's racial composition aimed to change the Dominican Republic from a “black” country into a racially ambiguous “Latin” one on the international stage. Second, in using North Atlantic missionaries’ perspectives to track this shift, it argues that black-led Protestant congregations represented a possible alternative future that both elite Dominicans and white North Atlantic missionaries rejected.

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Alcántara Almánzar, José. "Black images in Dominican literature." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 61, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1987): 161–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002050.

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Ferly, Odile. "Contrapuntal Reflections: Dominicans in the Haitian Imaginary." Women, Gender, and Families of Color 9, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0025.

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Abstract In Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint (2003), Eugenio Matibag argues that the two nations of Hispaniola have developed a symbiotic relation largely ignored by scholars, who generally regard their rapport as solely conflictual. Matibag notes the responsibility of “state-sponsored” nationalist discourses in the buildup of centuries-old tensions that have shaped the sense of collective identity on the island. His close examination of the history of paninsular relations reveals a pattern of complementariness rather than competition, especially in economic terms. Matibag, however, offers a predominantly Dominican perspective on Hispaniola, as most evident in his discussion of the Haitian figure in Dominican literature. While the pivotal part played by Haitianness in the Dominican psyche has come under increasing scrutiny in recent scholarship, the analysis of the converse phenomenon has received far less attention. This article examines the symbolic role of Dominicanness in the Haitian literary imaginary. After a succinct recapitulation of common depictions of Haitianness in the Dominican imaginary and collective identity, followed by a survey of the gendered characterization of Dominicans in Caribbean writing and societies at large, this article briefly turns to Dominican representations in Edwidge Danticat’s “Between the Pool and the Gardenias” (1993) and The Farming of Bones (1998) and then to the portrayal of the Dominican specter that figures in Gary Victor’s A l’angle des rues parallèles (2003). Perhaps unexpectedly, these Haitian texts published around the turn of the millennium illustrate in many ways the complementariness and collaboration that Matibag regards as characteristic of paninsular relations on Hispaniola.

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Creech, Stacy Ann. "Blackness, Imperialism, and Nationalism in Dominican Children's Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 12, no. 1 (July 2019): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2019.0290.

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From pre-Columbian times through to the twentieth century, Dominican children's literature has struggled to define itself due to pressures from outside forces such as imperialism and colonialism. This paper examines the socio-political contexts within Dominican history that determined the kind of literature available to children, which almost exclusively depicted a specific construction of indigeneity, European or Anglo-American characters and settings, in an effort to efface the country's African roots. After the Educational Reform of 1993 was instituted, however, there has been a promising change in the field, as Dominican writers are engaged in producing literature for young people that includes more accurate representations of Blackness and multiculturalism.

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Majkowska, Karolina. "“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American Literature." Colloquia Humanistica, no. 6 (November 22, 2017): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/ch.2017.009.

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“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American LiteratureDiscussing migrant identities, critics very often focus on the state in-between, the state between the borders, or being neither here nor there, and a migrant group that seems to epitomize this in-between condition is the Dominican-Americans. Consequently, the article seeks to examine the experience of in-betweenness, of being suspended between the boundaries and borders of two countries in selected texts of contemporary Dominican-American writers: Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and a short story “Monstro,” and Angie Cruz’s Soledad. It aims to analyze how the texts discuss the experience of in-betweenness through hybridity (for instance intertextuality and magical realism) with the use of tools offered by the neo-baroque esthetics. „Ani tu, ani tam”. Doświadczenie narodu bez granic we współczesnej literaturze dominikańsko-amerykańskiejAnaliza tożsamości imigrantów często skupia się na byciu pomiędzy, egzystowaniu między granicami, a także braku przynależności do żadnej z kultur. Grupa, która wydaje się uosabiać ten stan, to migranci z Republiki Dominikany w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje temat doświadczenia bycia pomiędzy, zawieszenia pomiędzy granicami i między dwoma krajami w wybranych tekstach współczesnych pisarzy dominikańsko-amerykańskich: powieści Krótki i niezwykły żywot Oscara Wao i opowiadania „Monstro” Junota Díaza oraz powieści Soledad Angie Cruz. Celem artykułu jest analiza doświadczenia bycia pomiędzy wyrażanego poprzez hybrydę, czemu służą narzędzia oferowane przez estetykę neobarokową, a także poprzez intertekstualność i realizm magiczny.

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Arce Álvarez, María Laura. "Bodily Matters." International Journal of English Studies 23, no. 1 (June 28, 2023): 163–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.521151.

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The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as a metaphor for the immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during the 1960s in the United States. Also, this paper studies how the female body becomes a metaphorical border in the diasporic experience for the central character as a way to depict an essentially female in-between-space. Thus, Cruz rewrites and recreates from the female body the diasporic experience of Dominican women immigrants in New York from an intersectional perspective.

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Rowińska-Szczepaniak, Maria. "Święci rodziny dominikańskiej w oratorstwie Fabiana Birkowskiego." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 58, no. 1 (June 7, 2023): 251–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.784.

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In the times of Fabian Birkowski, OP, the notion of the Dominican Family comprised three forms of community life. They were represented by the preaching friars, cloistered nuns, and lay Dominicans. There were numerous saints and blessed who used to be members of those orders and the memory of them was perpetuated in, among others, the religious oratory of the 17th century. Among the preachers of those days, Father Fabian holds a prominent place as an author of Latin oratories and sermons de sanctis delivered in the Polish language. The fact that a large portion of the speeches dedicated to saints, which he included in the collection Orationes ecclesiasticae, dealt with Dominican saints indicates Birkowski’s particularly strong spiritual bond with members of the monastic community that he himself belong to. The aim of the article is to attempt to make a typology of Birkowski’s texts dedicated to saints of the Dominican Family, to give their general characteristics, as well as to demonstrate literary proofs of the spiritual relationship which linked Birkowski and representatives of his own monastic family.

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Maríñez, Sophie. "Allegories of a Tormented Sisterhood: Haiti in Dominican Literature." Memorias, no. 28 (January 15, 2016): 61–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.28.8097.

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De Maeseneer. "Dominican Literature and Dominicanness from a European Perspective." Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 8, no. 1 (2016): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/reception.8.1.0029.

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Zimmerman, Tegan. "Unauthorized Storytelling: Reevaluating Racial Politics in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies." MELUS 45, no. 1 (2020): 95–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz067.

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Abstract This article revisits Julia Alvarez’s critically acclaimed historical novel In the Time of the Butterflies (1994). While much scholarship has paid attention to the novel as historiographic metafiction, its depiction of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime (1930-61), and its feminist perspective on the Dominican Republic, its racial politics are under-studied. In particular, scholars have overlooked Fela, the Afra-Dominican servant, spirit medium, and storyteller. I argue that studying Fela’s presence in the text as an unauthorized and unauthored voice not only adds complexity to the production of historiography and storytelling but also provides new insight into postcolonial feminist critiques of voice/lessness, narrative, and marginalized identities in the novel and criticism on it. Closely analyzing Fela’s voice—as it intersects with storytelling, historical slave narratives, Vodou, the maternal, and Haiti’s contribution to the Dominican Republic’s history—makes visible the unacknowledged yet essential role of the Afra-Dominican not only in this novel specifically but also to the Dominican Republic more generally.

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PEREZ-GELABERT, DANIEL E. "Checklist, Bibliography and Quantitative Data of the Arthropods of Hispaniola." Zootaxa 4749, no. 1 (March 10, 2020): 1–668. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4749.1.1.

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An updated and extensively revised checklist of the arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) is presented 11 years after the publication of the original in 2008. It integrates and quantifies all the terrestrial and surrounding marine arthropod species (plus those of Tardigrada and Onychophora), reported in the zoological literature for Hispaniola through the middle of 2019. A total of 9,920 valid species (8,202 extant and 1,718 fossil) are listed, which represents an increase of 1,683 species (1,369 extant and 314 fossil) from the original list. The largest component is Insecta (6,784 extant and 1,136 fossil), including 2,206 extant species of Coleoptera, 1,042 species of Hemiptera, 929 species of Diptera, 913 species of Lepidoptera and 774 species of Hymenoptera. Emphasis is on reviewing and updating the original list, including all newly recorded taxa and all pertinent taxonomic changes proposed since then. Important corrections have been made, and explanatory notes have been added. For example, multiple authors have confused the Lesser Antillean island of Dominica with the Dominican Republic. This error is much more common in the literature than was initially recognized. Erroneous records attributing species from one island to the other have been identified and corrected. The original spelling of the cricket species Scapsipedus bastardoi Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009, dedicated to Dominican biologist Ruth H. Bastardo, is corrected to Scapsipedus bastardoae nom. emend. High species endemism is typical of the biota of Caribbean islands. In this checklist, a total of 3,161 arthropod species (38.6%) are considered endemic or unique to Hispaniola. Among the speciose groups with higher levels of endemism are the Diplopoda (91.6%), Orthoptera (90.1%), Trichoptera (82.6%), Coleoptera (49.3%) and Araneae (47.5%). Also, a total of 201 arthropod species (174 insects + 27 non-insects) are identified as introduced to the island. The accompanying bibliography complements the taxonomic information and includes over 5,000 titles.

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Russ, Elizabeth. "Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 138, no. 5 (October 2023): 1110–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812923000925.

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AbstractIn this article, I examine divergent ideological impulses at play in the oeuvre of Aída Cartagena Portalatín (Dominican Republic, 1918–94), including Eurocentric cosmopolitanism, nationalism (of a leftist variety), and pan-Africanism. By exploring key moments in Cartagena's intellectual development and analyzing her 1978 short story collection Tablero (Blackboard), I argue that such apparent incongruities should be understood through the lens of what I call Dominican black cosmopolitanism, a writerly performance of intersectionality that strategically employs contradictory notions of culture and citizenship to illuminate the complex history of the Dominican Republic and propose a new model of national identity. Drawing on Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo's conceptualization of black cosmopolitanism and an innovative body of scholarship on Dominican history and identity, I show how Cartagena deploys opposing discourses within a single text to reimagine Dominican identity in a global context, elucidate the Afro-Dominican experience, and plumb the liberating possibilities of pan-African alliances.

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Maillo-Pozo, Sharina. "Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature, by Néstor E. Rodríguez." Black Scholar 46, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2016.1119626.

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Zilberman, Regina. "DESDE A CELA DO PRESO POLÍTICO: OS DIÁRIOS DO DOMINICANO FERNANDO DE BRITO." Revista Prâksis 2 (July 23, 2018): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25112/rpr.v2i0.1646.

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O Diário de Fernando (2009), editado por Frei Betto a partir das anotações do dominicano Fernando de Brito, pertence ao gênero da literatura carcerária que, remontando ao Críton, de Platão, tem em Memórias do cárcere (1953), de Graciliano Ramos, seu principal paradigma brasileiro. Ao examiná-lo, apresenta-se sua integração ao gênero, o testemunho do autor sobre a vida política brasileira entre o final dos anos 1960 e começo dos anos 1970, e os processos de repressão de que foram vítimas o religioso e seus companheiros de cela.Palavras-chave: Literatura carcerária. Diário. Memorialismo. Fernando de Brito. Frei Betto.ABSTRACTThe Diário de Fernando (2009), edited by Frei Betto from the notes of the Dominican Fernando de Brito, belongs to the genre of prison literature, which, dating back to Plato’s Crito, has in Graciliano Ramos’ Memórias do cárcere (1953) his main Brazilian model. By examining it, we can identify its integration to the genre, the author’s testimony on the Brazilian political life between the late 1960s and early 1970s, and repression processes that have suffered the Domincan and his cellmates.Keywords: Prison literature. Journal. Memorialism. Fernando De Brito. Frei Betto.

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Reeves, Andrew. "English Secular Clergy in the Early Dominican Schools: Evidence from Three Manuscripts." Church History and Religious Culture 92, no. 1 (2012): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187124112x621257.

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AbstractAs part of their mission to preach faith and morals, the medieval Dominicans often served as allies of parochial clergy and the episcopate. Scholars such as M. Michèle Mulchahey have shown that on the Continent, the Order of Preachers often helped to educate parish priests. We have evidence that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Dominicans were allowing parochial clergy to attend their schools in England as well. Much of this evidence is codicological. Two English codices of William Peraldus's sermons provide evidence of a provenance relating to a parish church: London Gray's Inn 20, a collection of his sermons on the Gospels, was owned by a parish priest, and Cambridge Peterhouse 211, a manuscript of his sermons on the Epistles, contains an act issued by the rector of a parish church. Another manuscript of Peraldus's sermons contains synodal statutes. As the Order of Preachers was outside of the diocesan chain of command, these statutes point to the use of these sermons by those who were subject to the episcopate. Since the Dominicans were normally forbidden from sharing their model sermon literature with secular clergy, these codices suggest a program on the part of the English province of the Order of Preachers to make sure that diocesan clergy could attend Dominican schools in order to gain the skills necessary to preach the basic doctrines and morals of the Christian faith to England's laity.

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Twombly, Robert G. "The Pardoner's Tale and Dominican Meditation." Chaucer Review 36, no. 3 (2002): 250–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cr.2002.0005.

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Herrero, Elba Alicia. "Using Dominican Oral Literature and Discourse to Support Literacy Learning among Low-achieving Students from the Dominican Republic." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9, no. 2 (March 15, 2006): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050608668642.

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Torres-Pineda, Patricia, and Jonathan W. Armbruster. "The Amazon sailfin catfish Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new exotic species established in the Dominican Republic." Novitates Caribaea, no. 16 (July 23, 2020): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi16.224.

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The correct identity and occurrence of the introduced armored catfish, locally known as “devil fish” or “pleco” in the Dominican Republic, is briefly described. Specimens were collected from six sites in the Dominican Republic. Several meristic and morphometric characters, as well as other external features including coloration, were examined. Results were compared with existing literature on fishes of the family Loricariidae. Examination revealed that specimens of the armored catfish, unofficially reported as Hypostomus plecostomus, actually belongs to the species Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855). It is inferred that this fish is established in Dominican inland waters, also the possibe occurrence of more than one species of Pterygoplichthys is discussed. This is the first report of this invasive species in the island of Hispaniola.

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Roorda, E. "Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature." Hispanic American Historical Review 95, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 178–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2837204.

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Maillo-Pozo, Sharina. "Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 49, no. 1-2 (July 2, 2016): 249–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2016.1256627.

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Adams, Kelly. "Democracy, Interrupted: Commissioning the “Truth” in Diasporic Dominican American Literature." MELUS 42, no. 3 (2017): 26–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlx048.

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Powell, Austin. "Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy." Renaissance Quarterly 74, no. 3 (2021): 722–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.99.

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This article examines the manuscripts into which compilers bound Dominican letters of spiritual direction in fifteenth-century Italy. It argues that manuscript compilers sought to model Observant Dominican sanctity after Jerome's late antique practice of writing letters of spiritual direction to women. The paper aims to contribute to the growing conversation around the development and spread of an Observant Dominican identity by demonstrating that compilers modeled Observant beati after Jerome's authoritative persona in order to argue for the ancient precedent of the reformers’ often controversial agendas, chief among them their active ministry to women.

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Rivera Prosdocimi, Ines P. "“Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal.” Man and Protean Pluralema." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25, no. 3 (November 1, 2021): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583390.

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This essay extends and contributes to existing scholarship by uncovering instances of cooperation and collaboration that suggest alternative views of Hispaniola and complicate contemporary political and social realities in the Dominican Republic. It focuses on Manuel Rueda’s 1998 Las metamorfosis de Makandal, in which François Makandal is imagined as a protean god. The author argues that Rueda’s Makandal is best understood as the embodiment of the vanguard poetic movement, Pluralismo. The Maroon becomes a central figure in the island’s story, as well as a figure of aesthetic possibilities and boundless exploration, like a pluralema. Rueda imagines a cosmic Makandal who is unhindered by racial or gender constructs, by space or time. Ultimately, he is a figure whose metamorphosis rewrites Hispaniola’s story and challenges rigid binaries that limit the way we view the Dominican Republic as a nation, Dominican national identity, Dominican-Haitian relations, and—more broadly—the island of Hispaniola.

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Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent, James Jaccard, Viktor Lushin, Roberto Martinez, Bernardo Gonzalez, and Katharine McCarthy. "HIV Risk Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic." Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care 10, no. 6 (September 12, 2011): 388–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1545109711419264.

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Existing literature related to HIV in the Dominican Republic has tended to neglect the unique role of tourism areas as distinct ecologies facilitative of sexual risk behavior, particularly HIV vulnerability and transmission. Furthermore, limited attention has focused on Dominican adolescents living in close proximity to tourism areas who have become increasingly exposed to alcohol due to the expanding tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. While most previous analyses of the effects of alcohol on adolescent sexual risk behavior have focused on the transient effects of alcohol on judgment and decision making, the effects of chronic alcohol use on sexual behavior has been a neglected area of research. Our study explores the relationship between chronic alcohol use, the parent–adolescent relationship, affective factors such as self-esteem, and intentions to engage in sex. We examine the above factors within the context of tourism areas which represent a unique ecology of alcohol availability and consumption and HIV risk. We discuss implications for developing applied family-based programs to target Dominican adolescent alcohol use and sexual risk behavior in tourism areas of high alcohol exposure.

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Martínez-Fernández, Luis. "The Sword and the Crucifix: Church-State Relations and Nationality in the Nineteenth-Century Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 30, no. 1 (1995): 69–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100017179.

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Like the precarious colonial state demeaningly referred to as “España la Boba,” the Dominican Catholic Church of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries endured the Caribbean ramifications of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. This onslaught included the cession of Santo Domingo to France in 1795, the protracted and bloody revolution in St. Domingue, disruptions in international trade, and invasions by Haiti in 1801 and 1805. Both the colonial state and the colonial church were further undermined by the declaration of Dominican independence in December 1821. Only weeks into Dominican independence, twelve thousand troops under the command of Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer invaded the eastern part of the island, fulfilling the long-held Haitian goal of unifying the island under Haitian rule. Although considerably weakened, the Dominican church survived as the single truly national institution in the sense that it retained influence throughout the Dominican territory. The church was also national in providing a central element in Dominican elite culture: fervent Catholicism. Thus it was not coincidental that clerics gravitated to the heart of the Dominican struggle for liberation and that the church continued to play a major role in defining political alignments during the forty years following Dominican independence.

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Duany, Jorge. "Caribbean Migration to Puerto Rico: A Comparison of Cubans and Dominicans." International Migration Review 26, no. 1 (March 1992): 46–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839202600103.

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Cuban and Dominican migration to Puerto Rico is a recent example of the intra-Caribbean movements initiated over 200 years ago. This article argues that migration within the Caribbean is as important as migration outside the region. To begin, the historical literature shows that intra-Caribbean migration preceded the movement to North America and Europe. Furthermore, migration within the region has always been heterogeneous in its socioeconomic composition and motivations. The present essay examines the similarities and differences between Cubans and Dominicans in Puerto Rico. Its objectives are to determine the magnitude of the flows, describe the migrants’ residential patterns, analyze their mode of incorporation into the labor market, assess their socioeconomic origins, and evaluate their reasons for migrating. The article concludes that intra-Caribbean migration continues to provide a significant avenue for social mobility within the region.

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Maguire, Brigid. "“A Border is a Veil”: Death as a Border in The Farming of Bones and The Book Thief." Digital Literature Review 9 (April 15, 2022): 83–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.9.1.83-89.

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Within literature, death has always been a common theme. In this essay, death as a border in literature will be explored in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief. The Farming of Bones follows Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman working in the Dominican Republic, and tells of the Haitian massacre in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The Book Thief follows Liesel Meminger, a young German girl living under the Nazi regime, and tells of life during World War II. Both Danticat and Zusak explore death as it appears in those tragedies, how it affects the people under those regimes, and how it creates a border. Death creates a border both physical and spiritual, rigid yet permeable, and one that is displayed through the personification of death by Danticat and Zusak.

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Duffy, Lauren N., Garrett Stone, H. Charles Chancellor, and Carol S. Kline. "Tourism development in the Dominican Republic: An examination of the economic impact to coastal households." Tourism and Hospitality Research 16, no. 1 (October 27, 2015): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358415613118.

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Coastal tourism projects are promoted in the Dominican Republic as national-level economic development initiatives that will create jobs for local residents, subsequently benefiting the households in these communities. However, the economic benefits of tourism can be severely weakened as a result of the neoliberal economic policies that guide such projects. Like other economically developing countries—particularly small island nations—the Dominican Republic embraced neoliberal policies that have ultimately reshaped the country’s economic, political, cultural, and physical landscape. As a result, transnational companies, foreign investors, and large-scale enclave tourism projects are the dominant form of tourism development in the Dominican Republic. Though companies’ revenue and profit data are not available for analysis of economic leakage, households can be investigated to understand the level of economic benefits obtained by residents of the local communities. Toward this end, 360 household surveys were collected to examine household income and material assets across 12 coastal communities in three regions of the Dominican Republic. Because of the noted differences in previous development literature, gender of the head of households and whether the household was dependent on income from tourism employment were compared across these measures after adjusting for regional differences. Results indicate that the gender of the head of the household and tourism dependency positively predicted household income, while only gender of the head of the household predicted material assets.

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Oropesa, R. S., and Leif Jensen. "Dominican Immigrants and Discrimination in a New Destination: The Case of Reading, Pennsylvania." City & Community 9, no. 3 (September 2010): 274–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01330.x.

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The last decade has witnessed the diversification of immigrant destinations in the United States. Although the literature on this phenomenon is burgeoning, research on the experiences of smaller immigrant groups in new destinations is underdeveloped. This is especially the case for those from the Dominican Republic, a group that is expanding beyond the traditional gateway cities of the Northeast. Using a survey of Dominican immigrants in Reading, Pennsylvania, this study has two objectives. the first objective is to describe the prevalence of experiences with institutional and interpersonal discrimination. the second objective is to determine the extent to which these experiences are structured around racial markers (i.e., skin tone), forms of capital, forms of incorporation, and exposure to the United States. Our results show that a substantial minority of Dominican immigrants claims to have been treated unfairly, primarily because of their “race and ethnicity.” in addition, experiences with some types of discrimination are positively associated with skin tone (i.e., darkness) and several factors that are identified in models of assimilation.

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Guzmán-Bello, Hugo, Iosvani López-Díaz, Miguel Aybar-Mejía, Máximo Domínguez-Garabitos, and Jose Atilio de Frias. "Biomass Energy Potential of Agricultural Residues in the Dominican Republic." Sustainability 15, no. 22 (November 11, 2023): 15847. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152215847.

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The Dominican Republic has significant potential for energy generation from residual biomass, with sugarcane, rice, and coconut waste having the highest energy potential. The Eastern, Northeastern, and Southern regions were identified as the areas with the most significant potential for energy generation. This potential can be harnessed to complement intermittent or unmanageable renewable energies in distributed generation networks. Biomass generation plants can be hybridized with other sources, such as wind and solar, to provide a more stable and reliable electricity supply. The methodology developed to evaluate the energy potential of residual biomass in the Dominican Republic integrates a rigorous review of the literature and agricultural databases, incorporating criteria such as annual production, residue-to-product ratio, higher calorific value, and dry matter content, culminating in a formula that synthesizes normalized data to optimize the selection and projection of biomass sources based on their potential energy contribution. The study found that the Dominican Republic has significant potential for energy generation from residual biomass, which can be leveraged to provide a more stable and reliable electricity supply.

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Collins, David J. "Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages*." Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 1 (2010): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/652532.

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AbstractThis article analyzes the fifteenth-century attempt by the Dominican order, especially in Cologne, to win canonization for the thirteenth-century natural philosopher Albert the Great. It shows how Albert's thought on natural philosophy and magic was understood and variously applied, how the Dominicans at Cologne composed his vitae, and how the order's Observant movement participated in these developments. It situates the canonization attempt at the intersection of two significant trends in which the order was a leading participant: first, the late medieval efforts to reform Christian society beginning with the religious life of monks and mendicants; second, the increasing concerns about the practice of learned and demonic magic that laid groundwork for the witch-hunting of the early modern period. The article aims to shed light on intersections of science and religion — their apprehension and negotiation — at a decisive moment in European history for both fields of human endeavor.

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Devís Arbona, Anna Maria. "La función social de la mujer en la literatura popular: un estudio de caso. The social function of women in folk literature: a case study." El Guiniguada 29 (2020): 54–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/elguiniguada.2020.338.

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En investigaciones anteriores se hadesarrollado la importancia de la literatura popular en el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural en el aula (Devís, 2015; Devís & Chireac, 2015a, 2015b; Morón & Devís, 2016; Devís & Chireac, 2017).En el presente estudio nos planteamos analizar los personajes femeninos en una muestra de cuentos populares recogidos en diversos lugares de los actuales Estados de Haití y República Dominicana con el objetivo de establecerla función social de la mujerque nos permita reflexionar sobre las posibilidades didácticas en la educación Primaria y Secundaria. Así pues, los objetivos son: Analizar la importancia de la literatura popular como exponente de la cultura a la que pertenece, valorar la función social de la mujer en la muestra de cuentos populares consideradosy establecer los referentes comunes entre varias culturas con el fin de favorecer el diálogo intercultural en las aulas. In previous research it hasdeveloped the importance of popular literature in the development of intercultural competence in the classroom (Devís, 2015; Devís & Chireac, 2015a, 2015b; Morón & Devís, 2016; Devís & Chireac, 2017).The current study proposes an analysis of the female characters of a series of folk tales collected in various locations of today ́s Haiti and Dominican Republicwith the aim of establishing the social function of women that allows us to reflect on the didactic possibilities in Primary and Secondary education.Thus, the objectives are as follows: To analyze the importance of folk literature as representative of the culture to which it belongs, to value the social role of women as highlighted in the sample folk tales selectedand to establishcommon benchmarks for different cultures.

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Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael. "The /‑(e)se/ in popular Dominican Spanish." Spanish in Context 5, no. 2 (November 3, 2008): 196–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.5.2.04nun.

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In Dominican Spanish, speakers produce the marker /‑(e)se/ to turn singulars arroz and gallina into the plurals arrócese and gallínase. Núñez Cedeño (2003) proposed that grammar alone is insufficient to account for its distribution. He introduced an information structure explanation suggesting that pragmatic factors guided speakers in selecting specific grammatical contexts to insert a /‑(e)se/ plural [instead of a /‑(e)s/ plural]. Colina (2006) proposed an alternative optimality analysis arguing that the regular plural is formed on a plural /‑s/ regulated by a constraint which prevents it from surfacing. This paper proposes a three-pronged approach to counter previous analyses. Firstly, it shows that the ‘double plural’ does not exist and that /‑e/, not /‑s/, signals plural formation. Secondly, this analysis shows that previous accounts relying on focused constituents only cannot hold because /‑se/ realization occurs both in focus and topic positions. Thirdly, based on the Expressive Morphology hypothesis, this article proposes that /‑se/ is an expressive morphological marker used under some restricted morpho-phonological conditions.

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Santana, Analola. "Camilla Stevens, Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance." Modern Drama 63, no. 3 (October 2020): 379–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.63.3.br4.

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López-Calvo, Ignacio. "Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature by Maja Horn." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 49, no. 3 (2015): 589–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2015.0065.

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Reyes-Santos, Alaí. "Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature, by Maja Horn." Black Scholar 45, no. 2 (April 3, 2015): 72–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2015.1013060.

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Wirtz, Peter. "Governance of old religious orders: Benedictines and Dominicans." Journal of Management History 23, no. 3 (June 12, 2017): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-02-2017-0007.

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Purpose The purpose of the present study is to tentatively contribute to paving the way for interdisciplinary research on the history of governance practices in ancient religious orders and on the significance of such governance for the orders’ performance and long-term survival. Design/methodology/approach The principal challenges of and proposed directions for such research on the comparative governance of old religious orders are illustrated through selected historic examples from Benedictine abbeys and Dominican monasteries, as they can be found in the yet scarce literature devoted to religious governance in the management field. Findings The authors’ review of research specifically devoted to the corporate governance of Benedictines and Dominicans illustrates the relevance of a hermeneutic grid derived from contemporary management research to better understand the historical dynamics of monastic governance and its relation to sustainability. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first attempt to establish a hermeneutic grid for the systematic and comparative study of the dynamics of governance systems in old religions organisations and their impact on organisational performance and sustainability.

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Sawyer, Mark Q., and Tianna S. Paschel. "“WE DIDN'T CROSS THE COLOR LINE, THE COLOR LINE CROSSED US”." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 2 (2007): 303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070178.

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We examine the interlinked migrations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, between the Dominican Republic and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, finally, migrations from these three countries to the United States. The literature tends to draw stark differences between race and racism in the United States and the nonracial societies of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, although Blackness is a contextual category, through analyzing how “Black” migrants are racialized using these three contexts, we find that there is a simultaneously global and local derogation of “Blackness” that places Black migrants at the bottom of socioeconomic hierarchies. Further, these migrants remain largely outside of conceptions of the nation, and thus Blackness is constructed as a blend of racial phenotype and national origin, whereby native “Blacks” attempt to opt out of Blackness on account of their national identity. This dynamic is particularly true in the Caribbean where Blanqueamiento, or Whitening, is made possible through a dialectical process in which a person's Whiteness, or at least his or her non-Blackness, is made possible by contrast to an “Other.” Consequently, we argue that immigration becomes a key site for national processes of racialization, the construction of racial identities, and the maintenance of and contestation over racial boundaries.

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Murray, Chris. "Coleridge’s Daoism? Joseph Needham, Dominican Sinology, and Romantic Pantheism." Wordsworth Circle 51, no. 2 (March 2020): 205–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/709152.

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Puig Cabrera, Miguel. "Psychometrics of Tourism: A (de)Builder of Quality of Life? Evidence from the Model of Happiness in Dominican Republic." Revista de Estudios Andaluces, no. 41 (2021): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/rea.2021.i41.11.

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For small island developing states (SIDS), tourism is often seen as a passport to development and wellbeing. The happiness phenomenon among residents of tourism destinations is usually linked to the concept of quality of life (QoL). The happiness literature suggests that there is a positive correlation between happiness and income of residents in SIDS, but there is not a clear directionality. In this correlation a large impact of non-income factors linked to wellbeing, such as own feelings and attitudes, belonging feeling to a community, identification with cultural and natural heritage, or a fair government that fulfills residents´ needs. Thus, the goal of this research is to uncover the Caribbean model of happiness according to the relationship between tourism and wellbeing in a SIDS. To test this hypothetical-conceptual model of this work, a questionnaire was administered to obtain suitable data for measuring the quality of life based on a total of five constructs and 27 indicators among residents directly involved in the tourism activity. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was the technique used to test this hypothetical conceptual model. This work bring empirical evidence to the happiness literature deepening in the model of wellbeing Dominican Republic characterized by three maxims: 1) the Dominican model of individual happiness is not based on material goods but emotions, and thus, greed is considered a poverty condition among rich people; 2) having more is having more to share with and 3) the public sector continues to be the object of mistrust among Dominican population, without covering their expectations in terms of justice administration or reliability on political leaders, despite perceiving the political environment as stable.

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Garrido, Orlando H., Guy M. Kirwan, and David R. Capper. "Species limits within Grey-headed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps and implications for the conservation of a globally threatened species." Bird Conservation International 12, no. 2 (June 2001): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270902002101.

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Grey-headed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps has traditionally been considered a polytypic species endemic to Cuba and the Dominican Republic and treated as globally threatened within the most recent Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2000). Chapman (1917) described Geotrygon leucometopius of Hispaniola as specifically distinct from G. caniceps of Cuba based on 10 specimens, taken by Rollo Beck in the Dominican Republic. Subsequently, Bond (1936, 1956) merged leucometopius within caniceps, an arrangement that has persisted, unchallenged in the technical literature, until the present. Through examination of 76 specimens, extensive field experience of Cuban birds, and less exhaustive fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, we re-evaluate the taxonomic status of the Hispaniolan population, identifying consistent differences in coloration, tail length and characteristics of the second to fifth primaries between it and the Cuban population. Based on these differences, we suggest that caniceps (endemic to Cuba) and leucometopius (restricted to the Dominican Republic) be henceforth resurrected to species status. We were unable to undertake a complete analysis of the vocalizations of the two forms, due to the lack of definite recordings from Hispaniola, but present sonograms and notes concerning Cuban birds. Further work, including molecular analyses, would be clearly desirable to test our hypothesis. Both forms are undoubtedly declining due to habitat destruction and hunting, and both certainly qualify as Vulnerable under current IUCN criteria. Indeed, leucometopius may even qualify as Endangered under the range criterion. Its status requires particularly careful monitoring, while new information, published since the BirdLife International (2000) review of globally threatened birds, suggests that the range even of nominate caniceps is considerably smaller than previously considered.

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Korondi, Ágnes. "Saint Jerome as a Model and Author for Nuns in Early Hungarian Texts." Clotho 3, no. 2 (December 24, 2021): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/clotho.3.2.147-164.

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Saint Jerome was a prominent figure in the Hungarian-language literature prepared mainly for nuns in the last decade of the fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century. A Dominican codex contains two legends about him (one of them is the translation of Pseudo-Augustine’s Epistola ad Cyrillum de magnificentiis beati Hieronymi), while a Franciscan manuscript preserved the Hungarian version of the Regula monachorum attributed to Jerome. The Franciscan András Nyujtódi represented the Church Father as a model teacher and translator when quoting the great biblical philologist’s dedicatory lines to the Book of Judith in his translation of the same biblical book, which this Transylvanian friar prepared as a private reading for his sister, a Franciscan tertiary. Another self-proclaimed follower of Jerome’s translating activity was an anonymous Carthusian monk, who mentioned the Slavic Bible and liturgy prepared by the saintly scholar. – The paper presents the texts by and about Jerome, which can be found in the not very extensive late medieval Hungarian-language literature, and traces the image of the saintly author as represented for the audience of the corpus produced for Observant Dominican and Franciscan nuns, tertiaries, and in a few cases perhaps laypersons.

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Smith, Edgar. "“Dominican Sushi In New York” and Other Poems." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 56, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 70–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2023.2195296.

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Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna, and Marleni Regalada Torres Núñez. "Palliative Care: From Global to Local Needs." Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 43, no. 03 (June 2022): 233–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1748800.

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AbstractPalliative care (PC) is a comprehensive approach that focuses on improving the quality of life of patients and families that face fatal diseases by optimal minimization of suffering. Seventy-eight percent of patients who benefit from palliative support live in low-and-middle-income countries, where the access to these services is limited. Six percent of the patients are below the age of 15. The aim of this study is to review briefly the history of PC and its global challenges and indicate its impact and barriers in the Dominican Republic. A literature review in PubMed and analysis of the history of impact globally of PC and a remark of Dominican Republic local program. Some of the identifiable barriers are the limited support from authorities and health systems, the discomfort of healthcare staff in providing PC, the lack of knowledge, as well as experience, and team support. Not only do low-and-middle-income countries face these challenges, but also globally there is an urgency of the integration of PC services to the different healthcare systems to improve quality of life. This was experienced in the Dominican Republic when the first PC program started in 2012. Currently, local efforts are being made to increase the impact of the program and to make it accessible to more patients and families.

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Henager, P. Eric. "Turns at Bat: Baseball and the United States in Dominican Literature and Print Culture." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 25, no. 1-2 (2016): 109–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nin.2016.0006.

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Iannella, Cecilia. "Civic Virtues in Dominican Homiletic Literature in Tuscany in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." Medieval Sermon Studies 51, no. 1 (October 2007): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/136606907x216968.

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De Maeseneer, Rita. "Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature, written by Maja Horn." New West Indian Guide 90, no. 3-4 (2016): 378–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09003044.

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Buck, Bradley. "An Inspired Alias? J.R.R. Tolkien’s Frodo Baggins ‘Underhill’ and Fr Gerard Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’, O.P. (1744–1814)." Journal of Inklings Studies 12, no. 2 (October 2022): 187–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0153.

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One of the most significant instances of renaming in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Frodo’s use of Underhill as a traveling name, has not been the subject of scholarly analysis. This article argues that Tolkien may have chosen the name Underhill for his central protagonist due to the specific inspiration of Fr Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’ (1744–1814), the English Dominican priest who founded the eighteenth-century Catholic mission at Leeds and who, alone, prevented the abandonment of the English province by the Dominican moment. Like Frodo, in his quest to destroy the Ring, it was Fr Albert alone who refused to give up hope and persevere whatever the odds. Moreover, like Frodo, Fr Albert and his wider family adopted the use of Underhill as an alias to avoid danger and persecution. This article analyses these and other parallels between the life of Fr Albert ‘Underhill’ in the primary world and Frodo ‘Underhill’ in the secondary, situates Fr Albert’s life in its wider historical contexts, and demonstrates the occasions and routes by which Tolkien could have been made aware of Fr Albert and his pivotal role in the re-evangelization of Protestant England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Zlatohlávková, Eliška. "Kresba Stětí sv. Kateřiny ze sbírky Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic." Opuscula historiae artium, no. 2 (2023): 140–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/oha2023-2-3.

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The contribution is devoted to the authorship of a drawing with the subject of the Beheading of St Catherine from the collection of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, saved today in the Museum of Literature of the National Literature Memorial. Based on a comparison with a drawing of a similar subject and composition, the author of the article has come to the view that Karásek's drawing can be attributed to the Augsburg painter Johann Matthias Kager (1566-1634) and may be considered one of the preparatory compositional studies for the now defunct altarpiece in the presbytery of the Dominican convent in Augsburg.

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Matiu, Ovidiu. "Politics and Literature: Dictatorship in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." East-West Cultural Passage 23, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2023-0004.

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Abstract This article explores the political dimension of Junot Díaz’s work, focusing on the figure of the dictator as depicted in the footnotes to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in an attempt to analyze his view of the “dangers of dictatorship” in both literature and politics and to prove that the political attitudes of writers influence the way their literature “does” politics. Thus, a thorough analysis of the footnotes exposes The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as a story about a nerd in New Jersey “dictated” by the narrator, which is challenged by the story of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who “dictated” the recent history of the Dominican Republic.

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