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Captive Women: Oblivion And Memory In Argentina (Cultural Studies of the Americas)

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Argentina is the one country within the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and censuses have in large part 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 20 th century. In Captive Women, Susana Rotker exposes this concerted act of forgetting by taking a look at a historical phenomenon that has been expunged from the national record: the widespread kidnapping of white women by Argentine Indians within the nineteenth century.

Captivity narratives form an important a part of the early colonial literature of the USA, but Argentina has no such tradition. These narratives contradict Argentina’s carefully shaped self-image, one historically in line with the absence of aboriginal peoples and the impossibility of miscegenation. Captive Women uses close and imaginative readings of military documents, government treaties, shuttle journals, essays, and memoirs to explore the foundations of Argentina’s strategies of silence and its negation of uncomfortable historical realities.

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