TY - BOOK ID - 2589510 TI - Bound and determined : captivity, culture-crossing, and white womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst PY - 1996 VL - *30 SN - 0226096548 PB - Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Abduction in literature KW - Beschavingsconflict in de literatuur KW - Blanke vrouwen in de literatuur KW - Conflit de civilisations dans la littérature KW - Culture conflict in literature KW - Cultuurconflict in de literatuur KW - Emprisonnement dans la littérature KW - Enlèvement de mineurs dans la littérature KW - Femmes blanches dans la littérature KW - Imprisonment in literature KW - Indianen van Noord-Amerika in de literatuur KW - Indians of North America in literature KW - Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord dans la littérature KW - Ontvoering in de literatuur KW - Opsluiting in de literatuur KW - Race relations in literature KW - Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur KW - Relations raciales dans la littérature KW - White women in literature KW - American prose literature KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Indians in literature. KW - Culture conflict in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - Imprisonment in literature. KW - Women, White, in literature. KW - Abduction in literature. KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Rowlandson, Mary White, KW - Hearst, Patricia, KW - Captivity, 1676. KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - History KW - Women and literature KW - Prose américaine KW - Littérature et anthropologie KW - Femme et littérature KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Relations interethniques KW - Femmes écrivains KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - États-Unis KW - Dans la littérature KW - Prose américaine KW - Littérature et anthropologie KW - Femme et littérature KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Dans la littérature KW - Femmes écrivains KW - États-Unis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2589510 AB - In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century classic Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical roles as helpless, dependent, sexually vulnerable, and xenophobic. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny, and instead finds in them an appeal of a much different nature: as all-too-rare stories of imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they end up with the power to be critical of both cultures. Castiglia shows that these compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural divisions and differences, have significant implications for current critical investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation. ER -