Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic

Language: English

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, US, 2009

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This work dismantles stereotypes of the captivity narrative. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Lisa Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity - one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience.Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic. …

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Title
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Author
Lisa Voigt
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press, US
Publication year
2009
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New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0807859443
ISBN 13
9780807859445
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New.
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509 grams
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15.54 x 2.01 x 23.5 cm

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