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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe diverse strands and varied emphases of the rich hagiographic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages are used to express startlingly different 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 Other. By examining captivity narratives seldom included in North American criticism, this study also contradicts the frequent assertion that the subject's desire to possess determines the representation of the Other.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Comparative Literature
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- TenHuisen, Dwight E.R.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Palencia-Roth, Michael
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3182393
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87290