(Forced) Walks on the Wild Side: Precarious Borders in American Captivity Narratives
Authors
Starre, AlexanderPublisher
Universidad de Alcalá
Date
2010-10Bibliographic citation
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 1, n. 2 (2010), pp. 22-37
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Publisher's version
http://ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/68/238Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
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.
Files in this item
Files | Size | Format |
|
---|---|---|---|
forced_Starre_ecozona_2010_N2.pdf | 208.0Kb |
![]() |
Files | Size | Format |
|
---|---|---|---|
forced_Starre_ecozona_2010_N2.pdf | 208.0Kb |
![]() |