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By Susana Rotker

From the Introduction

The publication of this Working Paper is part of an honored tradition of the Latin American Program--nurturing Latin American literature, both its creation and academic analysis. Carlos Fuentes, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and José Donoso, among others, have spent time working on novels at the Wilson Center. Most recently, we were delighted to host Susana Rotker, of Rutgers University, as a Wilson Center Guest Scholar during the summer of 1997. While working at the Center, Susana made significant progress on her latest book, an analysis of the cultural mechanisms that allowed the building of a “white country” in the far south of Latin America, ignoring the presence of women captives in the frontier and the “disappearance” of the native and Afro-Argentine populations.

We are pleased to offer a preview of the first two chapters of that book, so that friends of the Latin American Program can have an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the exciting work of Susana Rotker. 

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