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Captive Women
Oblivion and Memory in Argentina
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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 countrys 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 Argentinas carefully shaped self-image, one historically based on the absence of aboriginal peoples and the impossibility of miscegenation. Captive Women uses close and imaginative 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.
University of Minnesota Press; December 1998
254 pages; ISBN 9780816694136
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254 pages; ISBN 9780816694136
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > Latin America. Spanish America > South America > Argentina
- Political Science > Civil Rights
- Social Science > Women's Studies
- Social Science > Ethnic Studies
- History > Native American
- History > South America
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- History > Historiography
- History > Colonial Studies
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9780816694136
9780816640300
0816694133

