Captive Women : Oblivion and Memory in Argentina.
Title:
Captive Women : Oblivion and Memory in Argentina.
Author:
Rotker, Susana.
ISBN:
9780816694136
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Series:
Cultural Studies of the Americas
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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