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Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
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by Billy J. Stratton, Frances Washburn, George E. TinkerBilly J. Stratton
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The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first “best seller” to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the Puritan town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in February 1676, Rowlandson was held prisoner for more than eleven weeks before eventually being ransomed. The account of her experiences, published six years later, soon took its place as an exemplar of the captivity narrative genre and a popular focal point of scholarly attention in the three hundred years since.
In this groundbreaking new book, Billy J. Stratton offers a critical examination of the narrative of Mary Rowlandson. Although it has long been thought that the book’s preface was written by the influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Stratton’s research suggests that Mather was also deeply involved in the production of the narrative itself, which bears strong traces of a literary form that was already well established in Europe. As Stratton notes, the portrayal of Indian people as animalistic “savages” and of Rowlandson’s solace in Biblical exegesis served as a convenient alibi for the colonial aspirations of the Puritan leadership.
Stratton calls into question much that has been accepted as fact by scholars and historians over the last century, and re-centers the focus on the marginalized perspective of Native American people, including those whose land had been occupied by the Puritan settlers. In doing so, Stratton demands a careful reconsideration of the role that the captivity narrative—which was instrumental in shaping conceptions of “frontier warfare”—has played in the development of both American literary history and national identity.
In this groundbreaking new book, Billy J. Stratton offers a critical examination of the narrative of Mary Rowlandson. Although it has long been thought that the book’s preface was written by the influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Stratton’s research suggests that Mather was also deeply involved in the production of the narrative itself, which bears strong traces of a literary form that was already well established in Europe. As Stratton notes, the portrayal of Indian people as animalistic “savages” and of Rowlandson’s solace in Biblical exegesis served as a convenient alibi for the colonial aspirations of the Puritan leadership.
Stratton calls into question much that has been accepted as fact by scholars and historians over the last century, and re-centers the focus on the marginalized perspective of Native American people, including those whose land had been occupied by the Puritan settlers. In doing so, Stratton demands a careful reconsideration of the role that the captivity narrative—which was instrumental in shaping conceptions of “frontier warfare”—has played in the development of both American literary history and national identity.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780816599035 |
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Publisher: | University of Arizona Press |
Publication date: | 09/26/2013 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 224 |
File size: | 7 MB |
About the Author
Billy J. Stratton holds a PhD in American Indian studies and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Denver.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsForeword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 “Like a company of sheep torn by wolves”: Transatlantic Influences on the Development of the Indian Captivity Narrative
2 Exile, Deterritorialization, and Intertextuality: The Cartographic Impulse of Puritan Historiography
3 “And I Only Am Escaped To Tell The News”: Witnessing History in the True Narrative of Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity
4 Fractured Histories, Captive Subjects: The Masque of Textual Effacement
5 Representing the Native in the Twenty-First Century: “A Strange Fish” Still?
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
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