Captive Selves, Captivating Others
Subtitle: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives (Institutional Structures of Feeling)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780813316659
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Anthropology; Human rights; Imperialism; Political oppression & persecution; Racism & racial discrimination; United States - Colonial Period; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Discrimination & Racism; American Prose; Native Americans; Social Science; Sociology; English; Literary Criticism; North America; USA; Historiography; American - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Native American Studies; American prose literature; United States; Captivity narratives; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; History and criticism; Indian captivities
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.