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Captive Selves, Captivating Others The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives
By Pauline Turner Strong
Copyright 1999
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. 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... Read more
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
Biography
Pauline Turner Strong
