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During the 19th-century Haitian occupation, a nationalist spirit began to develop in Dominican literature, notably in the poetry of Félix Maria del Monte. Manuel de Jesus Galván continued the trend with his fictional epic Enriquillo: leyenda histórica dominicana (1879–82; “Enriquillo: Dominican Historical Legend”; Eng. trans. ...
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