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Held Captive By Indians: Selected Narratives 1642-1836
University of Tennessee Press, 1994 Paper: 978-0-87049-840-4 Library of Congress Classification E85.V36 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 970.1
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Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women. See other books on: Captivity narratives | Indian captivities | Indians of North America | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas | Native American Studies See other titles from University of Tennessee Press |
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Held Captive By Indians: Selected Narratives 1642-1836
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University of Tennessee Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-87049-840-4
Paper: 978-0-87049-840-4
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.
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