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Captive Selves, Captivating Others - The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives (Paperback)
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Captive Selves, Captivating Others - The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives (Paperback)
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Addressing the origins of racism and oppression in American
society, this book provides an analysis of the political,
psychological and spiritual climate that made possible the
imprisonment and slaughter of American Indians by the British
between 1576 and 1736. It describes the capture and manipulation of
fabled Indians such as Squanto (who brought seeds of maize to
starving pilgrims and taught them how to cultivate it) and
Pocahontas (the Indian Princess), as well as the early Inuit. The
author goes beyond these isolated incidences of captivity to
explore the underlying impulse to capture - the tradition of
oppression. She looks at a range of fundamental issues, including
human prey, clerical authority, wilderness seduction and colonial
power, and the book is laced with photographs and captivity
narratives and romances written by captives as well as captors.
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