Captive Selves, Captivating Others
Subtitle: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813316666
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Anthropology; Human rights; Imperialism; Political oppression & persecution; Racism & racial discrimination; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; United States - Colonial Period; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Social Science; Sociology; North America; USA; American - General; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; History-United States - Colonial Period; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Discrimination & Racism
First sentence: In a selective tradition that dates to the seventeenth century, Anglo-American identity is represented as the product of struggles in and against the wild: struggles of a collective Self surrounded by a threatening but enticing wilderness, a Self that seeks to domesticate this wilderness as well as the savagery within itself, and that opposes itself to Others Portrayed as savage, bestial, demonic, and seductive.