Women Captives and Indian Captivity Narratives

More of This Feature • Part 1: About Captivity Narratives • Part 2: Women's History Perspectives on Captivity Narratives • Part 3: Individual Captivity Narratives • Part 4: Bibliography and Links for More Information

Related Resources • Mary Rowlandson • Mary Jemison • A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

From Other Guides • Slave Narratives

Elsewhere on the Web • Bibliography on Mary Rowlandson and Captivity Narratives • Early American Captivity Narratives

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Bibliography and related links about women captives -- American women settlers taken captive by Indians -- and Indian Captivity Narratives, and what these mean to historians and as literary works:

Bibliography

• Christopher Castiglia. Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing and White Womanhood. University of Chicago, 1996.
• Kathryn Derounian-Stodola and and James Arthur Levernier. Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900. Twayne, 1993.
• Kathryn Derounian-Stodola, editor. Women's Indian Captivity Narratives. Penguin, 1998.
• Frederick Drimmer (editor). Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870. Dover, 1985.
• Gary L. Ebersole. Captured By Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity. Virginia, 1995.
• Rebecca Blevins Faery. Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping on an American Nation. University of Oklahoma, 1999.
• June Namias. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier. University of North Carolina, 1993.
• Mary Ann Samyn. Captivity Narrative. Ohio State University, 1999.
• Gordon M. Sayre, Olaudah Equiano and Paul Lauter, editors. American Captivity Narratives. D C Heath, 2000.
• Pauline Turner Strong. Captive Selves, Captivating Others. Westview Press, 2000.

Related -on this site

• Lydia Maria Child - Her book Hobomok is an interesting contrast to typical captivity narratives
• Native American Women
• Pocahontas

Related- from other Guides

• American History Timeline 1675-1700 - American History

• Native American History highlights - American History

• Captivity Narratives - Classic Literature

Captivity Narratives - on the web

• Early American Captivity Narratives

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