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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953- Captive selves, captivating others. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607269835 |
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| 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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