1st Edition

Captivity Literature and the Environment Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Cultural Collaborations

By Kyhl Lyndgaard Copyright 2017
158 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home... Read more

Prologue: Taking off the Moccasin Flower and Putting on the Lady's Slipper: Indian Removal and the Natural Environment in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 1: Redemption Deferred: American Captivity Narratives as Environmental Literature

Chapter 2: The Great Slide: Mary Jemison's Ruptured Narrative

Chapter 3: Scientific and Sympathetic Collaboration: Edwin James and John Tanner

Chapter 4: All Along the Watch Tower: Life of Black Hawk as a Counter Captivity Narrative

Chapter 5: Communitist Narratives of Exile and Restoration

Biography

Kyhl D. Lyndgaard is Director of First Year Seminar and Writing Centers at St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, USA.