The war in words
Subtitle: reading the Dakota conflict through the captivity literature
By: Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780803213708
Subjects: Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865 -- Personal narratives; Indian captivities -- Minnesota; Captivity narratives; Prisoners in literature
Genres: Personal narratives.
Description: xxxiv, 363 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Martha Riggs Morris and Sarah Wakefield : captivity and protest; title: Harriet Bishop McConkey and Isaac Heard : captivity and early Dakota war histories; title: Edward S. Ellis : captivity and the dime novel tradition; title: Mary Schwandt Schmidt and Jacob Nix : captivity and German Americans; title: Jannette Decamp Sweet, Helen Carrothers Tarble, Lillian Everett Keeney, and Urania White : captivity and the antiquarian impulse; title: Benedict Juni : captivity and the boy's adventure story; title: Samuel J. Brown and Joseph Godfrey : captivity and credit; title: Paul Mazakutemani : captivity and spiritual autobiography; title: Cecelia Campbell Stay and Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan : captivity and bicultural women's identity; title: Big Eagle, Lorenzo Lawrence, and Maggie Brass : captivity and cultural stereotypes; title: Good Star Woman : captivity and ethnography; title: Esther Wakeman and Joseph Coursolle : captivity and oral history; title: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve : captivity and counter captivity.