Urban Captivity Narratives
Title | Urban Captivity Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Hillsburg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2019-07-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000606546 |
Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts examined in the study follows a female protagonist who has survived abduction, been held captive for months or even years, and subjected to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse by their captor. Hillsburg contextualizes these narratives, and takes into consideration our current political atmosphere, the role of patriarchy, and various social anxieties that come into play when discussing the kind of oppression seen in these narratives.
Urban Captivity Narratives
Title | Urban Captivity Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Hillsburg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | Abduction in literature |
ISBN | 9781032090825 |
Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre she calls Urban Captivity Narrative. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the narratives examined in the study follows a female protagonist who has survived abduction.
The Captivity Narrative
Title | The Captivity Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Mark Allen |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Captivity in literature |
ISBN | 9781443835251 |
The Captivity Narrative offers a collection of scholarly treatises that assess the phenomenon of captivity and the nuanced methods captives have used to express their psychological duress and the manner in which they coped with bondage and its aftermath. The essays reflect a multidisciplinary interest in the subject by offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses. Topics include 17th-century captivity in Spanish Texas and Puritan New England, 19th-century slavery, Indian captivity in works of fiction, and the poetry, literature, and narratives of prisoners in the United States and England from the 19th to 21st century. The studies originated in a conference hosted in San Antonio, Texas (2011) by the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association. Contributors include Anne Babson, Jennifer Oakes Curtis, Lanta Davis, Steven Gambrel, Anne Matthews, Alan Smith and Elisabeth Ziemba.
Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration
Title | Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Harper |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2001-12-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847144055 |
The first study to deal extensively and comparatively with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and postcolonial cultures. Offering textual as well as historical analysis, each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena. Each also provides foundational insight into the social, economic and cultural conditions prevalent in colonial societies. Chapters, written by a wide range of international specialists, include coverage of the early modern to the contemporary period as well as coverage of cultural arenas from Europe to Asia, Australia, northern and southern Africa and North America.
Voices from Captivity
Title | Voices from Captivity PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.
Writing the Urban Jungle
Title | Writing the Urban Jungle PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph McLaughlin |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813919720 |
Much has been written about the effects of British culture on colonized people, but this study suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between literature and metropolitan culture, it discusses the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home.
Urban Homelands
Title | Urban Homelands PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsey Claire Smith |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2023-10 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1496237285 |
Oklahoma is bound to both the South and the Southwest and their legacies of conquest and Indigenous survivance. At the same time, mobility, ingenuity, cultural exchange, and creative expression—all part of the experience of urbanization—have been fundamental to people of the tribes that call this place home. Tulsa, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, with their importance in histories of geopolitical upheaval and mobility that shaped the establishment of the United States, are key to uncovering the history of urbanization experienced by Native Americans from Oklahoma. Urban Homelands, while examining the overlooked histories of Oklahoma Indigenous urbanization relative to these regions, engages literature and film as not just mirrors of experience but as producers of it. Lindsey Claire Smith brings the work of three-time poet laureate Joy Harjo into conversation with the great Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs and breakout filmmaker Sterlin Harjo. Flying in the face of civic landmarks and settler histories that at once obscure Native origins and appropriate Native culture for tourism, this creative reclaiming of Indigenous cities points toward the productive possibilities of recognizing untold urban histories and the creative relationships with urban space itself.