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Captivity Literature and the Environment - Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Cultural Collaborations (Paperback)
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Captivity Literature and the Environment - Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Cultural Collaborations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that
these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental
attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex
relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In
connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative
environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding
of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He
examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s
- A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and
Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which
engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist
tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the
authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their
stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same
time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more
inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered
by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while
environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their
continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for
justice has never been ceded.
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