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In the aftermath of King Philip's War in early American society,
Massachusetts Puritan Mary Rowlandson recorded her experiences as
an "Indian" captive. In a vivid story that recollects the details
of these events, Rowlandson attempts to impart a message to her
community through the use of three existing literary devices. The
genre of the "captivity narrative" that evolved is a distinct
literary mode developed as a confluence of these: spiritual
autobiography, a documentary method meant to archive spiritual and
emotional growth through a record of daily activities; the
conversion narrative, which made public one's theological assurance
of God's grace; and the jeremiad, a sermon form designed to remind
Puritans of their Covenant with God. To her contemporaries,
Rowlandson served as an example of God's Providence. To later
generations and specifically twenty-first century scholars, she
represents the voice of a new genre of storytelling.
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