Captive selves, captivating others : the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives
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- ISBN: 0813316650 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780813316659 (alk. paper)
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xvii, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-251) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chronology of Events, 1576-1776 -- Introduction: Captivity As Convergent Practice and Selective Tradition -- Identity, Alterity, and the Process of Typification -- Scholarly Traditions of Captivity -- The Politics and Poetics of Captivity: An Overview -- Indian Captives, English Captors, 1576-1622 -- European Devourers and Their Prey -- Kidnapping Tokens and Informants: Frobisher's Inuit Captives -- Capturing Allies and Enemies: Tisquantum, Alias Squanto -- Captivity and Hostage-Exchange in Powhatan's Domain, 1607-1624 -- A Christian for a Savage: The Middle Ground of Hostage-Exchange -- The Captivity and Transformation of John Smith -- The Captivity and Typification of Pocahontas -- Captivity, Conquest, and Resistance -- The Politics and Poetics of Captivity in New England, 1620-1682 -- Indigenous and Convergent Captivity Practices -- Metacom's War, Wetamo's Grievances, and the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson -- Wilderness Trials: A Gentlewoman's Conversion Narrative -- Captivity, Servitude, and Authority -- Seduction, Redemption, and the Typification of Captivity, 1675-1707 -- To Live Like Heathen: The Two Hannahs -- Texts Written in Blood: Cotton Mather and the Production of Meaning -- Redeemed and Unredeemed Captives: John and Eunice Williams -- Typification, Subordination, and the Limits of Hegemony -- Captive Ethnographers, 1699-1736 -- Shared Substance, Shared Light: The Dickinson and Hanson Narratives -- Manners and Customs: The Transculturated Captive -- Captivity and Colonial Structures of Feeling, 1744-1776. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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