Captive Selves, Captivating Others

Captive Selves, Captivating Others The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives - Institutional Structures of Feeling

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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 o

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Book information

ISBN: 9780367314811
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 818.10809358
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Weight: 453g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm