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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"captivity narratives"”.
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
Stories of Indian captivity had long interested Anglo-American readers. Throughout the early republic, the genre of women's Indian captivity narratives took on another significance. "Captivating a Nation" places the scholarship of Indian captivity in conversation with American nationalism and …
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The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other
In captivity narratives and missionary documents of the early colonial period (1608-c. 1750), English colonists portray Native American cultures as completely foreign yet eerily familiar. Captivity narratives play on foreignness while missionary documents play on familiarity; but both fall back on …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
… find embedded in English language newspapers and captivity narratives. Though some scholars have examined the role that American media has played in constructing spurious images of Native Americans, this current research is the first of its kind that specifically examines the birth and development …
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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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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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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… to understand the role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity, historians and scholars have usually focused on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… to understand the role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity, historians and scholars have usually focused on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of …
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GOOD WIVES: A STUDY IN ROLE DEFINITION IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1750
… embroideries, gravestones, genealogical records, captivity narratives, sermons, and the letters and diaries of husbands and sons.</p><p>The discussion is organized around three Biblical archetypes frequently employed in early New England. "Bathsheba" explores the distinct and often competing roles …
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Scopophobia
<p>[First paragraph of Preface]</p> <p>I set out to write an essay three years ago that started with the line “I always find God in the bathroom—don’t ask me why,” which is entirely true and says so much while explaining so little. Within a page and a half I briefly introduced a scene, a …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… of non-fictional and fictional texts, including captivity and redemption narratives, pamphlets, and news reports, as well as Romance epics, Baroque novels, novellas, dramas, and comedies. Through this study, I show how corso’s discursive representation ended up playing a crucial role in shaping …
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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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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 …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
<p> <p>The following essay examines the image of "Barbary piracy" created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to …