This author explores the intricate connections between space and postcolonial experience in Latin American literature. Her work delves into how societies grapple with their past and how this past manifests in contemporary spatial arrangements. Draper's analysis reveals how literary texts reflect and shape collective memory and identity within the context of dictatorships and their aftermath. Her approach offers profound insights into literature's capacity to illuminate the transition from oppression to new social orders.
Susana Draper puts the events and aftermath of 1968 Mexico into a global picture and counters the dominant cultural narratives of 1968 by giving voice to the Mexican Marxist philosophers, political prisoners, and women who participated in the movement and inspired alternative forms of political participation.