Pauline Turner Strong

Captive Selves, Captivating Others

The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780367314811
• ISBN-10: 0367314819
• Artikelnr.: 57672807

Autorenporträt

Pauline Turner Strong is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Captivity as Convergent Practice and Selective Tradition * Indian Captives
English Captors
1576-1622 * Captivity and Hostage-Exchange in Powhatans Domain
1607-1624 * The Politics and Poetics of Captivity in New England
1620-1682 * Seduction
Redemption
and the Typification of Captivity
1675-1707 * The Captive Ethnographers
1699-1736 * Captivity and the Structures of Feeling
1744-1776