ALIEN ABDUCTIONS.(historical aspects)

History Today;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......stories of alien abduction echo the captivity narratives of early America. Richard Slotkin...Harper Perennial, 1996), claims captivity narratives as the first coherent mythic literature...American Indians (1682), hundreds of captivity narratives recounted stories of kidnapping...

Captivity, liberty, and early American consciousness.(Liberty's Captives:...

Early American Literature;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......been reading hundreds of Indian captivity narratives and they were beginning to blur...on television. But they were all captivity narratives. I looked at him skeptically. I...criticism on the potency of Indian captivity narratives in American literature and culture...

Ethnography and the production of foreignness in Indian captivity...

The American Indian Quarterly;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......historical discussions of Indian captivity narratives. Ethnography has been perceived...between different cultures, and captivity narratives' settings--despite their wide geographic...familiarity. (1) In the case of Indian captivity narratives, this motif of encounter or middle...

"Affecting history": impersonating women in the early republic.(Critical...

Early American Literature;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......commonplace that Early American women's captivity narratives offer scholars and students alike...and compelling arguments about the captivity narratives' literary value and concomitant...is a hallmark of earlier women's captivity narratives; scholars routinely note the difficulty...

Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early...

Albion;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England. New York...scholars alike, seven complete English captivity narratives from among some twenty-five set...audience. In the end, these Barbary captivity narratives provide an important lens through...

Depictions of white children in captivity narratives.

American Studies International;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Indians, but about Indians. The captivity narratives are heavily loaded with the usual...surprisingly neglected by specialists of captivity narratives is the fate of white children when...as true actors of history. In the captivity narratives we are concerned with here, the...

A Captive's Tale - A contemporary retelling lends a poetic, but...

World and I;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in America from 1680 to 1720 were captivity narratives. Mary White Rowlandson's tale, published...America's favorite books. Why were captivity narratives so popular? These accounts of hair...suitable reading material. Most captivity narratives justified white conquest and westward...

CHEROKEE SCHOLAR PRESENTS COOPER LECTURE ON CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 5, 2008 ;     244 words ......Donahue will present her lecture, "An American Indian Reads Captivity Narratives: Just Whose Story Is This?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov...Indian captivity narrative, published in 1682. Indian captivity narratives - stories of non-Indians captured by Indians - were very...

(book review)

Early American Literature;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. PAUL BAEPLER. Chicago: University...a surprising number of Barbary captivity narratives were published (and quite often...were among the most popular of all captivity narratives but also provided Americans with...

Caught Between Worlds: British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction....

Biography;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Joe Snader. Caught Between Worlds: British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction. Lexington: UP of Kentucky...ambiguous. His reach is equally wide, as he covers captivity narratives whose dates begin in the late sixteenth and...

Cannibalism and infant killing: a system of "demonizing" motifs in Indian...

CLIO;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......discuss these motifs within Indian captivity narratives as a demonology, defined by Phillips...the pervasiveness of the motifs in captivity narratives, and more broadly, American culture...relation of the Puritan mind to Indian captivity narratives. William S. Simmons, for instance...

Lorrayne Carroll. Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and...

Biography;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History. Kent, OH: Kent...probability of editorial emendation in early captivity narratives written by or about women in North America...subjectivity, experience and authorship in early captivity narratives. Analysis of ...

Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, eds. Captive Histories: English, French,...

The American Indian Quarterly;  June 22, 2007 ;     395 words ......killed in the raid. Unlike most other collections of captivity narratives, the editors include and analyze the various Native American...research by Geoffrey Buerger on the Williams family. While captivity narratives are often emotionally charged, Haefeli and Sweeney present...

The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early...

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     660 words ......between the lines" of published Indian captivity narratives, Wllliam Henry Foster has opened...captured in the hundreds of published captivity narratives. On the other hand, these texts...conspicuous sllences in male-authored captivity narratives about the captives' lives under...

Gender in captivity

Novel;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the boundary between two cultures, Castiglia sees in captivity narratives a powerful site of dissent from which women challenged...until she is reunited with her mother. The great irony of captivity narratives lies in the fact that captives, who have a special insight...