Between the Unthinkable and the Unsayable: The Legacy of Brigadas Dominicanas (December 1961-March 1963) PDF
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The Dominican literary journal Brigadas Dominicanas
published ten issues between December 1961 and March 1963. Its director,
the Dominican poet and intellectual, Aı´da Cartagena Portalatı´n, affirmed
her journal as a space open to compatriots committed to artistic and political
freedom following the May 1961 assassination of the dictator Rafael
Trujillo. Although its pages serve as an important repository for testimonial
literature about the Trujillato, it is more than a simple anthology. While
historians maintain that literary discourse played a negligible role during
the postdictatorship moment, Brigadas reveals an intense social and political
engagement by artists and intellectuals in the political and social life of
the nation. Thus, rather than a time bereft of literary activity, Brigadas
shows 1961–1965 as a period during which Dominican artists and intellectuals
began what would be a long and continuing struggle to define the role
of art and literature in a free society.
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