%0 Journal Article 
%A Starre, Alexander
%T (Forced) Walks on the Wild Side: Precarious Borders in American Captivity Narratives
%D 2010
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21191
%X Most readings of American captivity narratives have so far investigated their 
intercultural, psychological, and theological significances, while disregarding their 
ecological aspects. Despite its appropriation into US-American national literature, the 
captivity genre contains at its root a transcultural plot of an individual's confrontation 
with the environment and the unsettling forces of wilderness and animality. These 
personal memoirs indeed hold global value by pointing to our collective embeddedness 
and embodiedness.
This essay surveys two early captivity narratives - the classical one by Mary 
Rowlandson (1682) and a lesser known text by John Gyles (1736) - alongside 
contemporary examples of the genre that relate the stories of American captives in 
Iraq and Colombia.
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala