Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that captivity narratives have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s, all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. The authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. Audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society.…mehr
Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that captivity narratives have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s, all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. The authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. Audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society.
Kyhl D. Lyndgaard is Director of First Year Seminar and Writing Centers at St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Taking off the Moccasin Flower and Putting on the Lady's Slipper: Indian Removal and the Natural Environment in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 1: Redemption Deferred: American Captivity Narratives as Environmental Literature Chapter 2: The Great Slide: Mary Jemison's Ruptured Narrative Chapter 3: Scientific and Sympathetic Collaboration: Edwin James and John Tanner Chapter 4: All Along the Watch Tower: Life of Black Hawk as a Counter Captivity Narrative Chapter 5: Communitist Narratives of Exile and Restoration
Prologue: Taking off the Moccasin Flower and Putting on the Lady's Slipper: Indian Removal and the Natural Environment in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 1: Redemption Deferred: American Captivity Narratives as Environmental Literature Chapter 2: The Great Slide: Mary Jemison's Ruptured Narrative Chapter 3: Scientific and Sympathetic Collaboration: Edwin James and John Tanner Chapter 4: All Along the Watch Tower: Life of Black Hawk as a Counter Captivity Narrative Chapter 5: Communitist Narratives of Exile and Restoration
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