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Captive selves, captivating others : the politics and poetics of colonial American captivity narratives

Author: Pauline Turner Strong
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
Series: Institutional structures of feeling.
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Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953-
Captive selves, captivating others.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607269835
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pauline Turner Strong
ISBN: 0813316650 9780813316659
OCLC Number: 40543363
Description: xvii, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Chronology of Events, 1576-1776 --
Introduction: Captivity As Convergent Practice and Selective Tradition --
Identity, Alterity, and the Process of Typification --
Scholarly Traditions of Captivity --
The Politics and Poetics of Captivity: An Overview --
Indian Captives, English Captors, 1576-1622 --
European Devourers and Their Prey --
Kidnapping Tokens and Informants: Frobisher's Inuit Captives --
Capturing Allies and Enemies: Tisquantum, Alias Squanto --
Captivity and Hostage-Exchange in Powhatan's Domain, 1607-1624 --
A Christian for a Savage: The Middle Ground of Hostage-Exchange --
The Captivity and Transformation of John Smith --
The Captivity and Typification of Pocahontas --
Captivity, Conquest, and Resistance --
The Politics and Poetics of Captivity in New England, 1620-1682 --
Indigenous and Convergent Captivity Practices --
Metacom's War, Wetamo's Grievances, and the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson --
Wilderness Trials: A Gentlewoman's Conversion Narrative --
Captivity, Servitude, and Authority --
Seduction, Redemption, and the Typification of Captivity, 1675-1707 --
To Live Like Heathen: The Two Hannahs --
Texts Written in Blood: Cotton Mather and the Production of Meaning --
Redeemed and Unredeemed Captives: John and Eunice Williams --
Typification, Subordination, and the Limits of Hegemony --
Captive Ethnographers, 1699-1736 --
Shared Substance, Shared Light: The Dickinson and Hanson Narratives --
Manners and Customs: The Transculturated Captive --
Captivity and Colonial Structures of Feeling, 1744-1776.
Series Title: Institutional structures of feeling.
Responsibility: Pauline Turner Strong.
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