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• NovelThe Cross and the SwordEnriquilloManuel de Jesús Galván · 1882A Taíno cacique raised by the Spaniards rises against the conquest: the Dominican national novel.Literature
• PoetryLas vírgenes de GalindoFélix María del Monte · 1885not translated into EnglishA crime committed under the Haitian occupation, sung in verse by an exile to awaken the memory of his compatriots.Literature
• Short storiesCosas añejasCésar Nicolás Penson · 1891not translated into EnglishThe criminal and legendary memory of a colonial city, given form by one of the founders of its prose.Literature
• NovelBaní o Engracia y AntoñitaFrancisco Gregorio Billini · 1892not translated into EnglishThe customs of a small town in the south of the island, observed by a former head of state retired to his home.Literature
• PoetryMi PedroSalomé Ureña · 1897not translated into EnglishA poet mother tells what she sees and what she hopes for in her son, at the end of a short life.Literature
• TaleCuentos frágilesFabio Fiallo · 1908not translated into EnglishGallant, ironic tales in which love, jealousy and beauty take the place of adventure.Literature
• NovelLa sangreTulio Manuel Cestero · 1914not translated into EnglishThe life of a young liberal man told from prison, under the dictatorship of the late nineteenth century.Literature
• EssaySix Essays in Search of Our ExpressionSeis ensayos en busca de nuestra expresiónPedro Henríquez Ureña · 1928How the Spanish-American world can find its voice: the founding essays of a great Dominican philologist.Literature
• TaleFolk-lore from the Dominican RepublicManuel José Andrade · 1930The largest early collection of Dominican folk tales, taken down from the dictation of storytellers by a linguist close to Franz Boas.Literature
• NovelOverRamón Marrero Aristy · 1939not translated into EnglishThe counter of a sugar mill, where a young clerk learns to cheat the men who cut the cane.Literature
• PoetryCompadre MonManuel del Cabral · 1943not translated into EnglishA peasant hero of the Cibao, between legend and reality, who has become the allegory of an entire country.Literature
• PoetryThere Is a Country in the WorldHay un país en el mundoPedro Mir · 1949The beauty of a sugar island and the dispossession of its peasants, sung from exile.Literature
• TaleCuentos cimarronesSócrates Nolasco · 1958not translated into EnglishPeasant tales from the South, taken down from the mouths of their tellers and rewritten by a man of letters.Literature
• CinemaLa sillaFranklin Domínguez · 1963An actor alone before the camera, to speak of the dictatorship in the wake of its fall.Cinema
• NovelEscalera para ElectraAída Cartagena Portalatín · 1970not translated into EnglishThe myth of Electra transposed to a Dominican plantation, and told by women.Literature
• EssaySocial Composition of the Dominican RepublicComposición social dominicana: historia e interpretaciónJuan Bosch · 1970A social history of the country, written by a former head of state in exile after his overthrow.Literature
• NovelLa biografía difusa de Sombra CastañedaMarcio Veloz Maggiolo · 1980not translated into EnglishA closed village where Taíno and African myths stand alongside Dominican history, from the Taínos to Trujillo, under the figure of an invented tyrant.Literature
• CinemaLumiantenaMartín López · 1981Ten minutes of visual experiment on the way newspapers transmitted their photographs.Cinema
• PoetryCaribbean African upon AwakeningCaribe africano en despertarBlas Jiménez · 1984A Dominican poet claims Africa in a country that preferred to forget it.Literature
• PoetryOscilación de pénduloLeopoldo Minaya · 1984not translated into EnglishThe poems of a teenager, published as they were written.Literature
• NovelLa tierra está bramandoHilma Contreras · 1986not translated into EnglishMothers confronting their children's life in hiding, in the time of the dictatorship.Literature
• NarrativeMemorias de un cortesano de la Era de TrujilloJoaquín Balaguer · 1988not translated into EnglishThe account of a life spent in the service of power, with one page deliberately left blank.Literature
• CinemaOne Way TicketUn pasaje de idaAgliberto Meléndez · 1988A drama of clandestine emigration drawn from a real event, and the first feature film shot in the country by an entirely Dominican crew.Cinema
• CinemaAbril: la trinchera del honorRené Fortunato · 1988The first look of Dominican cinema at the April civil war and the American intervention, edited from archive footage.Cinema
• NovelIn the Time of the ButterfliesJulia Alvarez · 1994The novel of three opponents of Trujillo, whom the underground called the butterflies, written in English by a novelist whose family had fled the dictatorship.Literature
• CinemaNueba YolÁngel Muñiz · 1995The comedy that finally took a popular character of Dominican television to New York, and whose success revived the country's cinema.Cinema

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