Captive selves, captivating others
the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives
by Pauline Turner Strong
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This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the "Indian captivity narrative" in the context of the complex historical practice of captivity across cultural borders in colonial North America. More familiar captivity narratives such as that of Capt. John Smith appear in a new light when read alongside less-familiar stories of captivity, particularly those concerning Native Americans captured by British explorers and colonists.
This detailed and nuanced study of the construction of identity and difference is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, ethnohistory, and anthropology.
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History, Politics and literature, Poetics, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Historiography, American prose literature, Captivity narratives, Indian captivities, Indians in literature, Imperialism, North america, history, America, civilization, Slavery, america, Captivities in literaturePlaces
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Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives
November 1, 2000, Westview Press
Paperback
in English
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Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives (Institutional Structures of Feeling)
November 2000, Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Hardcover
in English
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0813316650 9780813316659
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Captive selves, captivating others: the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives
1999, Westview Press
in English
0813316650 9780813316659
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-251) and index.
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"In a selective tradition that dates to the seventeenth century, Anglo-American identity is represented as the product of struggles in and against the wild: struggles of a collective Self surrounded by a threatening but enticing wilderness, a Self that seeks to domesticate this wilderness as well as the savagery within itself, and that opposes itself to Others Portrayed as savage, bestial, demonic, and seductive."
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