scholarly journals Defoe’s Unchristian Colonel: Captivity Narratives and Resistance to Conversion

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Catherine Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Captivity Narratives

Urban Captivity Narratives: Captivity and Confession in Women's Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-312
Author(s):  
Heather Hillsburg
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Captivity Narratives ◽  
Women’S Writing

Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Fritze ◽  
Daniel J. Vitkus
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Captivity Narratives

Rewriting the Captivity Narrative for Contemporary Children: Speare, Bruchac, and the French and Indian War

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara L. Schwebel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Captivity Narratives ◽  
French And Indian War ◽  
Captivity Narrative ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Indian War ◽  
War Stories

Juxtaposing the French and Indian War stories of Elizabeth George Speare, a mid-twentieth- century Anglo-American children's author, against those of Joseph Bruchac, a twenty-first- century Abenaki children's author, reveals how flexible and powerful captivity narratives have been in shaping arguments about gender, nationhood, citizenship, and land in the postwar United States.

Frontier Bloodlust in England: American Captivity Narratives and Stoker’s Dracula

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Roland Finger
Keyword(s):  
Captivity Narratives

3. Captivity Narratives and Colonialism

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-99
Keyword(s):  
Captivity Narratives

"For the Instruction of the Young": The Deerfield Captivity Narratives

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Medlicott
Keyword(s):  
Captivity Narratives

Captivity Narratives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Captivity Narratives

Allegories of Encounter

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Newman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Captivity Narratives ◽  
Mary Rowlandson ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
John Williams ◽  
Written Word

This book analyzes representations of reading, writing, and recollecting texts – “literacy events” – in early America’s best-known literary genre. Captivity narratives reveal how colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into the diverse experiences of colonial captivity. Captivity narratives reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. Sources include the foundational New England narratives of Mary Rowlandson and John Williams, the French Jesuit accounts of the colonial saints Isaac Jogues and Kateri Tekakwitha, the Anglo-African John Marrant’s account of his sojourn in Cherokee territory, and the narratives of Colonel James Smith and other captives in the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century.

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