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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Captivity Narrative"”.
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
… world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic of early modern colonial writing. It also suggests that the author's particular religious ideology influences their interpretation of self and …
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“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God
… consumption throughout Mary White Rowlandson’s captivity narrative <em>The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. </em>From Rowlandson’s fear of actual cannibalism at the outset of the work, her obsession with recording the strange foods she consumes, her status as a consumer of Algonquin culture, and …
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
<p>This thesis examines the captivity narrative, <em>Three Came Home</em>, written in 1947 by Agnes Newton-Keith, and the poverty narrative, <em>Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Stor</em>y, written in 2005 by Michelle Kennedy. When examined together through the …
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
<p>This thesis examines the captivity narrative, <em>Three Came Home</em>, written in 1947 by Agnes Newton-Keith, and the poverty narrative, <em>Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Stor</em>y, written in 2005 by Michelle Kennedy. When examined together through the …
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ACACIA, a Book of Wonders, or the Meditations of Fontaine Caldwell, Containing the True Account of Her Captivity as Written in Her Little Books
… is a gothic-inflected surrealist captivity narrative modeled after storied historical accounts such as Mary Rowlandson's <em>Sovereignty and the Goodness of God</em>, Charles I’s<em> Eikon Basilike</em>, and the prison narratives of the French Quietist mystic, Jeanne Guyon. Told by …
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The Lessons of Hunger: Food, Drink, and the Concept of Corrective Affliction in Three Puritan Captivity Narratives
… of food and drink imagery in the Puritan captivity narrative genre to corrective affliction, the focus of this study is to provide an extended evaluation of this relationship. By examining the role of hunger in the reconversion experience, discussing the various contexts of hunger in …
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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
… of literary techniques. The genre of the Indian captivity narrative is a literary construct that she develops out of the following literary forms that existed at the time of her writing. These are the spiritual autobiography, a documentary method meant to archive spiritual and emotional growth …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… oral and written history, and history and narrative. I examine the ideas of many theorists, including Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy and Hayden White's inquiry into historiography in Tropics of DiscouT'Se. My conclusions suggest that myth is the foundation of history and that Welch …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
… understanding what shape and form rhetoric and narrative can take, especially for Douglass. Rhetorical theory in practice builds upon Barbara Christian’s understanding of what theory and theorization looks like within African American communities of practice. She argues that African American …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… often seen as distinct. Drawing particularly on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and other forms of autobiography, I show that white, Native American, and African American authors' conceptions of themselves and the nation were relational, dependent on dynamic exchanges across ethnic lines. …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… this detachment in Revolutionary prisoner-of-war narratives. Captivity narrative scholarship of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has assumed that literary tropes of captivity have always worked to transform Anglo captives such as Mary Rowlandson into enlightened political subjects. When …