Women's Indian Captivity NarrativesPenguin, 1 nov 1998 - 400 pagine Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah Dunstan's infamous captivity and escape (after scalping her captors!), and the "Panther Captivity", as well as lesser known texts. As Derounian-Stodola demonstrates in the introduction, the stories also raise questions about the motives of their (often male) narrators and promoters, who in many cases embellish melodrama to heighten anti-British and anti-Indian propaganda, shape the tales for ecclesiastical purposes, or romanticize them to exploit the growing popularity of sentimental fiction in order to boost sales. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Pagina ix
... Dustan : vii xi xxix xxxvii 1 A Notable Exploit ; wherein , Dux Faemina Facti , from Magnalia Christi Americana by Cotton Mather ( 1702 ) Elizabeth Hanson : 53 God's Mercy Surmounting Man's Cruelty , Exemplified in the Captivity and ...
... Dustan : vii xi xxix xxxvii 1 A Notable Exploit ; wherein , Dux Faemina Facti , from Magnalia Christi Americana by Cotton Mather ( 1702 ) Elizabeth Hanson : 53 God's Mercy Surmounting Man's Cruelty , Exemplified in the Captivity and ...
Pagina xii
... Dustan , for example . Other captiv- ities appeared not as separate publications or within someone else's longer work , but as short pieces in a magazine or almanac , including many versions of the " Panther Captivity . " In fact ...
... Dustan , for example . Other captiv- ities appeared not as separate publications or within someone else's longer work , but as short pieces in a magazine or almanac , including many versions of the " Panther Captivity . " In fact ...
Pagina xiii
... Dustan's story was indeed oral since he used it to conclude a sermon he later pub- lished in Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances in 1697. The Pu- ritan narratives especially used strategies of seventeenth - century English ...
... Dustan's story was indeed oral since he used it to conclude a sermon he later pub- lished in Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances in 1697. The Pu- ritan narratives especially used strategies of seventeenth - century English ...
Pagina xiv
... Dustan account and on the surface of the Rowlandson story , the blatantly anti - Indian propaganda manifests itself in the many ra- cial slurs against Native Americans . Yet while much of the propa- ganda is anti - Indian , other ...
... Dustan account and on the surface of the Rowlandson story , the blatantly anti - Indian propaganda manifests itself in the many ra- cial slurs against Native Americans . Yet while much of the propa- ganda is anti - Indian , other ...
Pagina xviii
... , the earliest full - length Indian captivity narrative published as a sep- arate book , has long been canonized as an early American classic , as have Cotton Mather's versions of Hannah Dustan's infamous cap- tivity xviii INTRODUCTION.
... , the earliest full - length Indian captivity narrative published as a sep- arate book , has long been canonized as an early American classic , as have Cotton Mather's versions of Hannah Dustan's infamous cap- tivity xviii INTRODUCTION.
Sommario
MARY ROWLANDSON | 1 |
HANNAH DUSTAN | 53 |
ELIZABETH HANSON | 61 |
PANTHER CAPTIVITY | 81 |
JEMIMA HOWE | 91 |
MARY KINNAN | 105 |
MARY JEMISON | 117 |
MARY GODFREY | 211 |
SARAH F WAKEFIELD | 235 |
EMELINE L FULLER | 315 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 339 |
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