Ethnogenesis and Captivity: Structuring Transatlantic Difference in the Early Republic, 1776-1823
Description:
This study seeks to understand the development of early American ideas of race, religion, and gender as reflected in Indian and Barbary captivity narratives (tales of individuals taken captive by privateers in North Africa) and in plays that take American captives as their subject. Writers of both Indian and Barbary captivity narratives used racial and religious language – references to Indians and North Africans as demonic, physically monstrous, and animal – simultaneously to delineate Native…
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Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Siddiqi, M. Omar
Partner:
UNT Libraries