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This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on
aspects of its impact on popular culture.
Jon Stratton looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis
on aspects of its impact on popular culture.
Even as Stephen Graham Jones generates a dizzying range of
brilliant fiction, his work has remained strikingly absent from
scholarly conversations about Native and western American
literature, owing to his unapologetic embrace of popular genres
such as horror and science fiction. Steeped in dense narrative
references, literary and historical allusions, and experimental
postmodern stylings, his fiction informs a broad array of literary
and popular conversations. The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones
offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's
ever-expanding oeuvre. The diverse methodologies that inform these
essays - from Native American critical theory to poststructuralism
and gothic noirism - illuminate the exciting complexity of Jones's
narrative worlds while positioning his works within broader
conversations in literary studies and popular culture. Jones
challenges at every turn the notions of what constitutes Native
American literature and what it means to be a Native American
writer. Contributing editor Billy J. Stratton foregrounds this
heavily contested question of identity and its ongoing relevance to
readers and critics.
Out of Eden contributes towards conversations about interpreting
scripture. Rather than adopting traditional views (creation and
'fall' or growth), this study integrates literary-critical theories
and feminist scholarship to read the Genesis narrative in relation
to concerns of contemporary communities. The question of how we
might engage the interpretative process and the rhetorical power of
texts as we live our lives 'out of Eden' is addressed. Stratton
argues that the interpretration of Genesis 2-3 matters, that there
are consequences for the actions we take on the basis of our
interpretations, and that we should enter the interpretative
process only with care.>
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, "The Soveraignty and
Goodness of God," published in 1682, is often considered the first
"best seller" to be published in North America. Since then, it has
long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian
captivity. After an attack on the Puritan town of Lancaster,
Massachusetts, in February 1676, Rowlandson was held prisoner for
more than eleven weeks before eventually being ransomed. The
account of her experiences, published six years later, soon took
its place as an exemplar of the captivity narrative genre and a
popular focal point of scholarly attention in the three hundred
years since.
In this groundbreaking new book, Billy J. Stratton offers a
critical examination of the narrative of Mary Rowlandson. Although
it has long been thought that the book's preface was written by the
influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Stratton's research
suggests that Mather was also deeply involved in the production of
the narrative itself, which bears strong traces of a literary form
that was already well established in Europe. As Stratton notes, the
portrayal of Indian people as animalistic "savages" and of
Rowlandson's solace in Biblical exegesis served as a convenient
alibi for the colonial aspirations of the Puritan leadership.
Stratton calls into question much that has been accepted as fact
by scholars and historians over the last century, and re-centers
the focus on the marginalized perspective of Native American
people, including those whose land had been occupied by the Puritan
settlers. In doing so, Stratton demands a careful reconsideration
of the role that the captivity narrative--which was instrumental in
shaping conceptions of "frontier warfare"--has played in the
development of both American literary history and national
identity.
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