![]() ![]() Along with her own past, Urania remembers some of the violence of the Trujillo regime, such as the rapes committed by Ramfis Trujillo, the dictator’s son. In the meantime, she has harbored a deep anger towards her father and a deep-seated but unnamed trauma that has prevented her from having relationships with men. Through Urania’s one-sided dialogue with him, the novel reveals bits of her past we find out that she fled the country in 1961, the year of Trujillo’s assassination, and that she has not been in contact with any members of her family since. Without knowing why, she goes to visit her father whom she has not seen in 35 years and is now in advanced states of cognitive decay, unable to speak or feed himself. A successful lawyer, she is still haunted by memories of her childhood under the Trujillo Era and spends most of her free time reading about the history of the time period. In 1996 Urania Cabral, daughter of Agustin Cabral, high-ranking Trujillista, returns to the Dominican Republic. ![]() Here, the individual stories are summarized, but the novel alternates between telling a chapter of each. Three separate stories make up its narrative. ![]() The Feast of the Goat uses this historical event to create a subjective history of the horrors of Trujillo’s regime through the perspectives of both its victims and the dictator itself. On May 30th, 1961, Rafeal Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, was shot after 31 years of rule characterized by violence and oppression. ![]()
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