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Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives » Read Now
by Pauline Turner Strong. 264 pgs.

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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 & nuanced study of the relationship between practice & representation on...
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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 & nuanced study of the relationship between practice & representation on the one hand & identity & alterity on the other is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, & historical anthropology.
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Cultural Orphans in America (Chap. Four "Tales of Captivity and Adoption") » Read Now
by Diana Loercher Pazicky. 238 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A study of orphan imagery as a reflection of cultural identity formation in America.
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The Ignoble Savage: American Literary Racism, 1790-1890 (Chap. 2 "The Fictive Design: Beyond the Captivity Narrative") » Read Now
by Louise K. Barnett. 222 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to civilized society. In captivity narratives of this period, the Indians...captives may be recorded in captivity narratives, it is not named as such...the great popularity...
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Depictions of White Children in Captivity Narratives, in American Studies International » Read Now
by Elise Marienstras. 13 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Depictions of white children in captivity narratives. by Elise Marienstras...but about Indians. The captivity narratives are heavily loaded with the...neglected by...
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Captivity and Conversion: William Apess, Mary Jemison and Narratives of Racial Identity, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Hilary E. Wyss. 20 pgs.

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...principle of nineteenth-century captivity narratives, however, what remained...Anglo-American culture, captivity narratives generally focused on the...conventions through...
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Female Captivity and the Deployment of Race in Three Early American Texts, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Maureen L. Woodard. 32 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the themes and concerns of captivity narratives like Rowlandsons. Many novels...Temple. If we recall that many captivity narratives, including Rowlandsons, associated...and...
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The Land before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (Book One "From Captivity to Accomodation, 1630-1833") » Read Now
by Annette Kolodny. 296 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library
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Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915 (Chap. 6 "The Selective Nature of Frontierswomen's Sympathies") » Read Now
by Glenda Riley. 336 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...usually "penny dreadfuls" or captivity narratives that further inflamed white...in the literary genres of captivity narratives and "penny dreadfuls." These...during the...
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Land of Savagery/Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century ("The Changing Image: The Captivity Narratives" begins on p. 25) » Read Now
by Ray Allen Billington. 364 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Chap. 1 "Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel") » Read Now
by Deidre Lynch, William B. Warner. 490 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Discussion of captivity narratives begins on p. 103) » Read Now
by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 320 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad...
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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
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Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Discussion of captivity narratives begins on p. 66) » Read Now
by Lauren Benton. 285 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses...
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This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world. Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in shaping the international order.
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Cannibalism and Infant Killing: A System of "Demonizing" Motifs in Indian Captivity Narratives, in CLIO » Read Now
by Colin Ramsey. 14 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...demonizing" motifs in Indian captivity narratives. by Colin Ramsey...these motifs within Indian captivity narratives as a "demonology," defined...pervasiveness of the...
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Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England » Read Now
by Daniel J. Vitkus. 376 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales...
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These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. Each narrative is preceded by a brief introduction, and Nabil Matar's genera introduction provides important new information about the historical context of captivity and slavery in North Africa.
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