Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives

by Strong,Pauline Turner

• ISBN13: 9780813316666
• ISBN10: 0813316669
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the "Indian captivity narrative" in the context of the complex historical practice of captivity across cultural borders in colonial North America. This detailed and nuanced study of the relationship between practice and representation on the one hand, and identity and alterity on the other. It is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, and historical anthropology.

Author Biography

Pauline Turner Strong is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Figures	ix
Chronology of Events, 1576--1776	xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
A Note on the Text	xvii
Introduction: Captivity As Convergent Practice and Selective Tradition	1	(18)
Identity, Alterity, and the Process of Typification	3	(6)
Scholarly Traditions of Captivity	9	(4)
The Politics and Poetics of Captivity: An Overview	13	(2)
Notes	15	(4)
Indian Captives, English Captors, 1576--1622	19	(24)
European Devourers and Their Prey	20	(3)
Kidnapping Tokens and Informants: Frobisher's Inuit Captives	23	(9)
Capturing Allies and Enemies: Tisquantum, Alias Squanto	32	(5)
Notes	37	(6)
Captivity and Hostage-Exchange in Powhatan's Domain, 1607--1624	43	(34)
A Christian for a Savage: The Middle Ground of Hostage-Exchange	43	(5)
The Captivity and Transformation of John Smith	48	(15)
The Captivity and Typification of Pocahontas	63	(7)
Captivity, Conquest, and Resistance	70	(1)
Notes	71	(6)
The Politics and Poetics of Captivity in New England, 1620--1682	77	(38)
Indigenous and Convergent Captivity Practices	78	(5)
Metacom's War, Wetamo's Grievances, and the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson	83	(13)
Wilderness Trials: A Gentlewoman's Conversion Narrative	96	(7)
Captivity, Servitude, and Authority	103	(3)
Notes	106	(9)
Seduction, Redemption, and the Typification of Captivity, 1675--1707	115	(36)
To Live Like Heathen: The Two Hannahs	118	(10)
Texts Written in Blood: Cotton Mather and the Production of Meaning	128	(7)
Redeemed and Unredeemed Captives: John and Eunice Williams	135	(8)
Typification, Subordination, and the Limits of Hegemony	143	(2)
Notes	145	(6)
Captive Ethnographers, 1699--1736	151	(26)
Shared Substance, Shared Light: The Dickinson and Hanson Narratives	152	(14)
Manners and Customs: The Transculturated Captive	166	(6)
Notes	172	(5)
Captivity and Colonial Structures of Feeling, 1744--1776	177	(34)
Providence and Sentiment in the Mid-Eighteenth Century	178	(14)
Horrifying Matters of Fact: The Production of Savagery and Heroism	192	(8)
Conclusion: The Selective Tradition of Captivity	200	(6)
Notes	206	(5)
Appendix: Bibliography of British and British Colonial Captivity Narratives, 1682--1776	211	(8)
References	219	(34)
Index	253