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Author Rotker, Susana, 1954-

Title Captive women : oblivion and memory in Argentina / Susana Rotker ; translated by Jennifer French ; foreword by Jean Franco
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages)
Series Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 10
Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 10.
Summary Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and censuses have largely omitted any references to the country's non-European inhabitants, mirroring official policies that once included the extermination of indigenous peoples and continued to encourage Europeanization well into the twentieth century. In Captive Women, Susana Rotker exposes this concerted act of forgetting by looking at a historical phenomenon that has been expunged from the national record: the widespread kidnapping of white women by Argentine Indians in the nineteenth century. Captivity narratives form a major part of the early colonial literature of the United States, but Argentina has no such tradition. These narratives contradict Argentina's carefully shaped self-image, one historically based on the absence of aboriginal peoples and the impossibility of miscegenation. Captive Women uses close andimaginative readings of military documents, government treaties, travel journals, essays, and memoirs to explore the foundations of Argentina's strategies of silence and its negation of uncomfortable historical realities
Notes Translation of: Cautivas : olvidos y memoria en la Argentina
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Indian captivities -- Argentina
Women -- Argentina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Disappeared persons -- Argentina
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Disappeared persons
Historiography
Indian captivities
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Argentina -- Historiography
Subject Argentina
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816640300
0816640300
9780816694136
0816694133
Other Titles Cautivas. English