Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861Dartmouth College Press, 2000/10/03 - 223 ページ In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the US national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a "binary division between captive and captor that is based on cultural, national, or racial difference," but they also transcend these pre-existing antagonistic dichotomies by creating a new social space, and herein lies their emotional power. Beginning from a simple question on why captivity, particularly that of women, so often inspires a sentimental response, Burnham examines how these narratives elicit both sympathy and pleasure. The texts carry such great emotional impact precisely because they "traverse those very cultural, national, and racial boundaries that they seem so indelibly to inscribe. Captivity literature, like its heroines, constantly negotiates zones of contact," and crossing those borders reveals new cultural paradigms to the captive and, ultimately, the reader. |
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... ^ Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861 Michelle Burnham Dartmouth College PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON Dartmouth College Published by University Press of New England ©
... England © 1997 by the Trustees of Dartmouth College First paperback printing 1999 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5432 CIP data appear at the end of the book Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix ...
... England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, 41 and the Sentimental Novel 3. Republican Motherhood and Political Representation 63 in Postrevolutionary America 4. The Imperialist Audience: Nationalism and Sympathy 92 in the Frontier ...
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Figures | 2 |
Captivity Cultural Contact and Commodification | 10 |
Captivity Sympathy | 41 |
Republican Motherhood and Political Representation | 63 |
and Removes of Mrs Mary Rowlandson Boston 1771 | 64 |
Nationalism and Sympathy | 92 |
The HORRORS OF WAR A VISION Or a Scene in the Tragedy | 112 |
Sympathetic Agency and Colonization | 118 |
Lithograph Chez Miné Eliza Crossing the Ice n d | 137 |
Strategies of Mimicry | 147 |
Notes | 177 |
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