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T1 (Forced) Walks on the Wild Side: Precarious Borders in American Captivity Narratives
A1 Starre, Alexander
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB 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.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
YR 2010
FD 2010-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21191
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21191
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024