Maja Horn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Horn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Horn |
| SIGNATURE | HORN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination - by King, Rosamund S
The Global South Atlantic
Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging, written by Tanya L. Shields
Before and beyond Masculinity after Trujillo: A Critical Return
This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature and history. Engaging with Ramírez's essay, Horn critically revisits her historical argument about how the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-61) and the preceding US occupati…
José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of "hybridity" and "performance" in Muñoz's work to the work of Antonio Benítez-Rojo, another Cuban/Cuban American scholar who has foregrounded the role of performance in the Caribbean. The aut…
Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
This book argues that discourses of masculinity circulating in the cultural and political sphere in the Dominican Republic, including in much of the country's literary canon, structure notions of citizenship and state power in problematic ways. However, Masculinity after Trujillo challenges prevalent understandings of Dominican masculinity as primarily an outgrowth of a long-standing Latin American patriarchal "tradition" and highlights how mascu…
Dictates of Dominican Democracy: Conceptualizing Caribbean Political Modernity
This essay addresses the limits of conventional Western political categories for apprehending post-colonial Caribbean political landscapes. Specifically, it suggests that in the case of the Dominican Republic standard political differentiations of periods of “dictatorship” and “democracy” obscure continuities and elide the crucial impact of US imperialism. The practice of the US military occupation (1916–24) in clothing itself in a discourse of d…
Messy moods: Nostalgia and other nagging feelings in Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Queer Caribbean Homecomings
This essay explores the joint multimedia exhibits presented in the Dominican Republic by the artistic collaborators Nelson Ricart-Guerrero, a Dominican now living in Paris, and his French partner, Christian Vauzelle, and the questions that Ricart-Guerrero's artistic return raises about what queer migrants might bring back home. I suggest that these repeated artistic homecomings trouble prevalent perceptions of migration as a movement from repress…
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Queer Caribbean Homecomings
This essay explores the joint multimedia exhibits presented in the Dominican Republic by the artistic collaborators Nelson Ricart-Guerrero, a Dominican now living in Paris, and his French partner, Christian Vauzelle, and the questions that Ricart-Guerrero's artistic return raises about what queer migrants might bring back home. I suggest that these repeated artistic homecomings trouble prevalent perceptions of migration as a movement from repress…
Before and beyond Masculinity after Trujillo: A Critical Return
This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature and history. Engaging with Ramírez's essay, Horn critically revisits her historical argument about how the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-61) and the preceding US occupati…
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Queer Caribbean Homecomings
This essay explores the joint multimedia exhibits presented in the Dominican Republic by the artistic collaborators Nelson Ricart-Guerrero, a Dominican now living in Paris, and his French partner, Christian Vauzelle, and the questions that Ricart-Guerrero's artistic return raises about what queer migrants might bring back home. I suggest that these repeated artistic homecomings trouble prevalent perceptions of migration as a movement from repress…
Messy moods: Nostalgia and other nagging feelings in Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
This book argues that discourses of masculinity circulating in the cultural and political sphere in the Dominican Republic, including in much of the country's literary canon, structure notions of citizenship and state power in problematic ways. However, Masculinity after Trujillo challenges prevalent understandings of Dominican masculinity as primarily an outgrowth of a long-standing Latin American patriarchal "tradition" and highlights how mascu…
Dictates of Dominican Democracy: Conceptualizing Caribbean Political Modernity
This essay addresses the limits of conventional Western political categories for apprehending post-colonial Caribbean political landscapes. Specifically, it suggests that in the case of the Dominican Republic standard political differentiations of periods of “dictatorship” and “democracy” obscure continuities and elide the crucial impact of US imperialism. The practice of the US military occupation (1916–24) in clothing itself in a discourse of d…
José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of "hybridity" and "performance" in Muñoz's work to the work of Antonio Benítez-Rojo, another Cuban/Cuban American scholar who has foregrounded the role of performance in the Caribbean. The aut…
Before and beyond Masculinity after Trujillo: A Critical Return
This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature and history. Engaging with Ramírez's essay, Horn critically revisits her historical argument about how the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-61) and the preceding US occupati…
The Global South Atlantic
Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging, written by Tanya L. Shields
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination - by King, Rosamund S
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)