The Captors Narrative
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The Captors Narrative
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Author : William Henry Foster
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Captors Narrative written by William Henry Foster and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.
Bound And Determined
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Author : Christopher Castiglia
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-02-15
Bound And Determined written by Christopher Castiglia and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Christopher Castiglia gives shape to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical role attributes of helplessness, dependency, sexual vulnerability, and xenophobia. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny and instead finds in them imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they emerge with the power to be critical of both cultures. These compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural differences, have significant implications for current investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation.
North Country Captives
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Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
language : en
Publisher: Upne
Release Date : 1992
North Country Captives written by Colin Gordon Calloway and has been published by Upne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Eight narratives challenge old stereotypes and provide a clearer understanding of the nature of captive taking. These stories portray captors as individuals with a unique culture, offering glimpses of daily life in frontier communities.
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson
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Author : Mary Rowlandson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson written by Mary Rowlandson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with categories.
"THE FIRST AMERICAN BESTSELLER"Mary Rowlandson, a colonial American captured during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed, wrote of her ordeal in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson and her children were forced to accompany the Indians as they travelled through the wilderness to carry out other raids on colonists and fight the English militia. The severe conditions are recounted in visceral detail. Following her ransom, Rowlandson is thought to have composed a private narrative of her captivity recounting the stages of her odyssey in twenty distinct "Removes" or journeys. The text of her narrative is replete with verses and references describing conditions similar to her own, and have fueled much speculation regarding the influence of Increase Mather in the production of the text.The tensions between colonists and Native Americans, particularly in the aftermath of King Philip's War, were a source of anxiety in the colonies. While in fear of losing connection to their own culture and society, Puritan colonists were curious about the experience of one who had lived among Native people as a captive and returned to colonial society. The publication of Rowlandson's captivity narrative earned the colonist an important place in the history of American literature. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is among the most frequently cited examples of a captivity narrative and is often viewed as an archetypal model. This important American literary genre functioned as a source of information for eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers James Fenimore Cooper, Ann Bleecker, John Williams, and James Seaver, in their portrayals of colonial history. Because of Rowlandson's encounter with her Indian captors, her narrative is also interesting for its treatment of intercultural contact. Finally, in its use of autobiography, Biblical typology, and similarity to the "Jeremiad", "A narrative of the Captivity" offers valuable insight into the Puritan mind.This text is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and garnered readership both in the New England colonies and in England, leading it to be considered by some the first American "bestseller."[Source: Wikipedia]
The Captive S Position
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Author : Teresa A. Toulouse
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-23
The Captive S Position written by Teresa A. Toulouse and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity. Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so, The Captive's Position offers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson
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Author : Rowlandson
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2018-08-20
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson written by Rowlandson and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United States, and she settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, marrying in 1656. It was here that Native Americans attacked during King Philip’s War, and Mary and her three children were taken hostage. This text is a profound first-hand account written by Mary detailing the experiences and conditions of her capture, and chronicling how she endured the 11 weeks in the wilderness under her Native American captors. It was published six years after her release, and explores the themes of mortal fragility, survival, faith and will, and the complexities of human nature. It is acknowledged as a seminal work of American historical literature.
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Rowlandson
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Author : Mary White Rowlandson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-09-22
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Rowlandson written by Mary White Rowlandson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-22 with categories.
- Mary ROWLANDSON, born White, later Mary Talcott, was born in 1637 and died in 1711 (at age 74), is an American and was captured by Native Americans for almost three months. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, she published "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God - Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." This story is considered a work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It is one of the first American "best sellers." Around 1650, his family left England and settled in Salem, then in 1653 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. In 1656, she married Reverend Joseph Rowlandson. On February 10, 1675, Lancaster was attacked by Amerindians, 13 were killed and 24 prisoners were taken captive, including Mary and her three children, Joseph, Mary, and Sarah. A week or so later, her 6-year-old daughter Sarah succumbed to her injuries. For three months, Mary and her children were forced to walk through the wilderness in harsh conditions. On May 2, 1676, Mary was released following a ransom. In 1678, his first husband, Mr. Rowlandson died. In 1679, she married Captain Samuel Talcott and took his last name. Mary and her children moved to Boston where she reportedly wrote her captivity story. In 1682, his account of captivity was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in London the same year. - "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Captivity Sentiment
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Author : Michelle Burnham
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Release Date : 2000-10-03
Captivity Sentiment written by Michelle Burnham and has been published by Dartmouth College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the US national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a "binary division between captive and captor that is based on cultural, national, or racial difference," but they also transcend these pre-existing antagonistic dichotomies by creating a new social space, and herein lies their emotional power. Beginning from a simple question on why captivity, particularly that of women, so often inspires a sentimental response, Burnham examines how these narratives elicit both sympathy and pleasure. The texts carry such great emotional impact precisely because they "traverse those very cultural, national, and racial boundaries that they seem so indelibly to inscribe. Captivity literature, like its heroines, constantly negotiates zones of contact," and crossing those borders reveals new cultural paradigms to the captive and, ultimately, the reader.
The Account Of Mary Rowlandson And Other Indian Captivity Narratives
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Author : Mary Rowlandson
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-08
The Account Of Mary Rowlandson And Other Indian Captivity Narratives written by Mary Rowlandson and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-08 with History categories.
Rowlandson's famous account of her abduction by the Narragansett Indians in 1676 is accompanied by three other narratives of captivity among the Delawares, the Iroquois, and the Indians of the Allegheny.
The Young Captives
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-03-16
The Young Captives written by Anonymous and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with Fiction categories.
"The Young Captives: A Narrative of the Shipwreck and Suffering of John and William Doyley" by anonymous is a very short tale that describes the wreckage of a ship on a foreign island and the two young boys who were taken in by the indigenous people. Accompanies by pictures, the book paints a vivid picture, despite its short length. It's a story of adventure and action that inspires the imaginations of readers young and old.