Captive selves, captivating others : the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives

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    • Strong, Pauline Turner

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Captive selves, captivating others : the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives

Pauline Turner Strong

(Institutional structures of feeling)

Westview Press, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-251) and index

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ISBN 9780813316659

Description

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. This detailed and nuanced study of the relationship between practice and representation on the one hand and identity and alterity on the other is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, and historical anthropology.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813316666

Description

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. This detailed and nuanced study of the relationship between practice and representation on the one hand, and identity and alterity on the other. It is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, and historical anthropology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Captivity as Convergent Practice and Selective Tradition 2. Indian Captives, English Captors, 1576-1622 3. Captivity and Hostage-Exchange in Powhatan's Domain, 1607-1624 4. The Politics and Poetics of Captivity in New England, 1620-1682 5. Seduction, Redemption, and the Typification of Captivity, 1675-1707 6. Captive Ethnographers, 1699-1736 7. Captivity and Colonial Structures of Feeling, 1744-1776

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