Captive women : oblivion and memory in Argentina / / Susana Rotker ; translated by Jennifer French ; foreword by Jean Franco

• Autore: Rotker Susana <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 236 p
• Disciplina: 982/.00498
• Soggetto topico: Indian captivities - Argentina; Women - Argentina - Social conditions - 19th century; Disappeared persons - Argentina
• Soggetto geografico: Argentina Historiography
• Note generali: Translation of: Cautivas : olvidos y memoria en la Argentina.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Captive women
• ISBN: 0-8166-9413-3; 0-8166-4030-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814606203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 10.