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Captive Women : Oblivion And Memory In Argentina

Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. In Captive Women, Susana Rotker exposes this concerted act of forgetting by looking at a historical phenome.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rotker, Susana
Other Authors: Franco, Jean, French, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Against Oblivion; 2. In Conquest of a White Nation: The Elites; 3. No One Mourns for Captives: The Soldiers; 4. Frontier Bodies: Esteban Echeverría's La Cautiva; 5. The Return of the Forbidden: The Women Writers; 6. Captive Texts: The Ethics of Representation; 7. The Story of a Journey with No Return; 8. News of a Disappearing World; Notes; Bibliography; Index.