عنوان

White captives :

شابک

0807820792

شابک

080784408X

شابک

9780807820797

شابک

9780807844083

شماره

b523722

عنوان اصلي

White captives :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

gender and ethnicity on the American frontier /

نام نخستين پديدآور

June Namias

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Chapel Hill :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of North Carolina Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[1993]

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©1993

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xix, 378 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-366) and index

متن يادداشت

White actors on a field of red. White women held captive ; White men held captive ; Exploring sexual boundaries -- Women in times of change. Jane McCrea and the American Revolution ; Mary Jemison: the evolution of one captive's story ; Sarah Wakefield and the Dakota War -- Women and children first

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

White Captives offers a new analysis of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier. June Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture. She demonstrates that these captivity materials, which most often feature as victims white women and children (the most vulnerable members of their communities), vividly portray anxieties about gender and ethnicity on the frontier and in American society. Namias begins by comparing the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers, from colonial New England to mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota, and explores how the stories transformed victims of historical circumstance into heroes and heroines. She then uses the narratives of three captives - Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield - as case studies, arguing that they describe the fears of sexual contact between native cultures and white settlers and illustrate issues of female survival, independence, and competence. Moreover, she finds that these and other stories also reflect the major role of women and children in the migration process. According to Namias, both the historical reality and the reworked tales of capture offered white Americans new ways of looking at gender and ethnic relations by contrasting their own roles and value with those presumed to be Indian. Thus, while elements of horror, propaganda, mythmaking, and ethnographic documentary characterized the accounts, captivity materials served a larger purpose by providing a framework for notions of gender and cultural conflict on the frontier

عنوان

White captives.

موضوع مستند نشده

Jemison, Mary,1743-1833

موضوع مستند نشده

McCrea, Jane,1753-1777

موضوع مستند نشده

Wakefield, Sarah F

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnicity-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Indian captivities-- United States

موضوع مستند نشده

Indians of North America-- Sexual behavior

موضوع مستند نشده

s1et

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Namias, June

تاريخ عمليات

20160712054806.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y