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Bound and Determined - Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Paperback, New)
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Bound and Determined - Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Paperback, New)
Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
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This work provides an analysis of 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 60 accounts by women captives, as well as
novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's 18th-century classic "Rueben
and Rachel" to modern mass-market romances, the author investigates
paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find
freedom from stereotypical roles as helpless, dependent, sexually
vulnerable and xenophobic. 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 an appeal of a much different nature: as
all-too-rare stories of 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 end up with the
power to be critical of both cultures. Castiglia shows that these
compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent
explorations of cultural divisions and differences, have
significant implications for current critical investigations into
the construction of gender, race and nation.
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