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Although over four hundred articles and several books have been written about Augusto Roa Bastos, very few of these studies focus upon the role of women in his fiction.1 Female characters have not appeared central to the author’s work until his last novel, Madama Sui (1996), in which the protagonist is courtesan to the dictator modeled on Alfredo Stroessner, who governed Paraguay from 1954 through 1989. However, if we now look back over Roa Bastos’s six novels populated by very strong male characters, such as Cristóbal Jara, El Supremo, and Félix Moral, among others, it is clear that women have always been present and occupied a significant role in his narrative.
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Weldt-Basson, H.C. (2010). All Women Are Whores. In: Weldt-Basson, H.C. (eds) Postmodernism’s Role in Latin American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107939_10
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