The Resource Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation, Rebecca Blevins Faery
Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation, Rebecca Blevins Faery
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- Summary
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- "In Cartographies of Desire, Rebecca Faery argues that two recurring literary and cultural figures--the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden--have played a key role in constructing the geographic and ideological maps of the United States. Across contested territory, symbolized by the woman's body, concepts of race and sex have helped shape the evolving American identity. Faery shows that the colonizers' desire for hind fused with tack desire for Native women. Likewise, the effort to "protect" white women from the presumed desire of dark men, Indian and African, became an insistence on the colonists' right to guard territory taken or desired. Using Mary Rowlandson's 1682 captivity narrative and the Pocahontas stories introduced in chronicles of early seventeenth-century Virginia, Faery demonstrates how the two female figures have been invoked and elaborated in numerous texts and settings as America's image of itself has evolved through three centuries. The imaginative sweep of the text presents the reader with a fresh look at the political, racial, and sexual implications of stories about white women captured by Indians and about Indian women captured, colonized, and reinterpreted by Anglo culture. Placing racial and cultural conflict in context, Faery illuminates the origins and evolution of America's subtle but persistent attempts to assert itself as a white nation"--Publisher description
- Includes material on "two recurring literary and cultural figures--the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden ..."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 275 pages
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Iowa
- Contents
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- To Lancaster: February 1991
- Writing captivity
- Race in the theatre of colonialism
- Exploiting captivity
- Reading Rowlandson
- Rereading Rowlandson
- Rewriting captivity
- Leaving Lancaster
- To Gravesend: April 1992
- Engendering the New World
- Colonizing Pocahontas
- Captivating Pocahontas
- Decolonizing Pocahontas
- Voyaging to Jamestown: October 1993
- To Pocahontas: June 1995
- Facing East, facing West
- The romance of light and dark
- The erotics of captive bodies
- Removals
- Red, white, and black
- The Prairie: August 1992
- Isbn
- 9780806131498
- Label
- Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation
- Title
- Cartographies of desire
- Title remainder
- captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Blevins Faery
- Subject
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- American literature -- History and criticism
- Américains dans la littérature
- Blanches dans la littérature
- Desire in literature
- Désir dans la littérature
- Erlebnisbericht
- Frau
- Gefangener
- Gefangenschaft -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
- Gewalt
- Indian captivities -- Historiography
- Indian captivities -- Historiography
- Indian women in literature
- Indianer
- Indians in literature
- Indiennes d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Kolonisation
- Literatur
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Gefangenschaft
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Rasse
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Sexualität
- Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Pocahontas
- Pocahontas, -1617 -- In literature
- Pocahontas, d. 1617 -- In literature
- Pocahontas, m. 1617, dans la littérature
- Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique -- Historiographie
- Race dans la littérature
- Race in literature
- Rasse -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
- Rowlandson, Mary White
- Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711 -- In literature
- Rowlandson, Mary White, ca 1635-1678, dans la littérature
- Rowlandson, Mary White, ca. 1635-ca. 1678 -- In literature
- Sex in literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- USA
- White women in literature
- Women, White, in literature
- Sexualität -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "In Cartographies of Desire, Rebecca Faery argues that two recurring literary and cultural figures--the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden--have played a key role in constructing the geographic and ideological maps of the United States. Across contested territory, symbolized by the woman's body, concepts of race and sex have helped shape the evolving American identity. Faery shows that the colonizers' desire for hind fused with tack desire for Native women. Likewise, the effort to "protect" white women from the presumed desire of dark men, Indian and African, became an insistence on the colonists' right to guard territory taken or desired. Using Mary Rowlandson's 1682 captivity narrative and the Pocahontas stories introduced in chronicles of early seventeenth-century Virginia, Faery demonstrates how the two female figures have been invoked and elaborated in numerous texts and settings as America's image of itself has evolved through three centuries. The imaginative sweep of the text presents the reader with a fresh look at the political, racial, and sexual implications of stories about white women captured by Indians and about Indian women captured, colonized, and reinterpreted by Anglo culture. Placing racial and cultural conflict in context, Faery illuminates the origins and evolution of America's subtle but persistent attempts to assert itself as a white nation"--Publisher description
- Includes material on "two recurring literary and cultural figures--the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden ..."
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Faery, Rebecca Blevins
- Dewey number
- 810.9/35297
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS173.I6
- LC item number
- F34 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rowlandson, Mary White
- Pocahontas
- Rowlandson, Mary White
- Pocahontas
- American literature
- Indians in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Indian captivities
- Indian women in literature
- Women, White, in literature
- Desire in literature
- Race in literature
- Sex in literature
- Rowlandson, Mary White, ca 1635-1678, dans la littérature
- Pocahontas, m. 1617, dans la littérature
- Littérature américaine
- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Américains dans la littérature
- Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique
- Indiennes d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Blanches dans la littérature
- Désir dans la littérature
- Race dans la littérature
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- Gefangenschaft
- Sexualität
- Rasse
- Literatur
- Literatur
- Literatur
- Literatur
- Gewalt
- Kolonisation
- Frau
- Gefangener
- Erlebnisbericht
- USA
- Indianer
- Label
- Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation, Rebecca Blevins Faery
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Iowa
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- To Lancaster: February 1991 -- Writing captivity -- Race in the theatre of colonialism -- Exploiting captivity -- Reading Rowlandson -- Rereading Rowlandson -- Rewriting captivity -- Leaving Lancaster -- To Gravesend: April 1992 -- Engendering the New World -- Colonizing Pocahontas -- Captivating Pocahontas -- Decolonizing Pocahontas -- Voyaging to Jamestown: October 1993 -- To Pocahontas: June 1995 -- Facing East, facing West -- The romance of light and dark -- The erotics of captive bodies -- Removals -- Red, white, and black -- The Prairie: August 1992
- Control code
- ocm40510530
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806131498
- Lccn
- 98054760
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780806131498
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o40510530
- (OCoLC)40510530
- Label
- Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation, Rebecca Blevins Faery
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Iowa
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- To Lancaster: February 1991 -- Writing captivity -- Race in the theatre of colonialism -- Exploiting captivity -- Reading Rowlandson -- Rereading Rowlandson -- Rewriting captivity -- Leaving Lancaster -- To Gravesend: April 1992 -- Engendering the New World -- Colonizing Pocahontas -- Captivating Pocahontas -- Decolonizing Pocahontas -- Voyaging to Jamestown: October 1993 -- To Pocahontas: June 1995 -- Facing East, facing West -- The romance of light and dark -- The erotics of captive bodies -- Removals -- Red, white, and black -- The Prairie: August 1992
- Control code
- ocm40510530
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806131498
- Lccn
- 98054760
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780806131498
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o40510530
- (OCoLC)40510530
Subject
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Américains dans la littérature
- Blanches dans la littérature
- Desire in literature
- Désir dans la littérature
- Erlebnisbericht
- Frau
- Gefangener
- Gefangenschaft -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
- Gewalt
- Indian captivities -- Historiography
- Indian captivities -- Historiography
- Indian women in literature
- Indianer
- Indians in literature
- Indiennes d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature
- Kolonisation
- Literatur
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Gefangenschaft
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Rasse
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv | Sexualität
- Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Pocahontas
- Pocahontas, -1617 -- In literature
- Pocahontas, d. 1617 -- In literature
- Pocahontas, m. 1617, dans la littérature
- Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique -- Historiographie
- Race dans la littérature
- Race in literature
- Rasse -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
- Rowlandson, Mary White
- Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711 -- In literature
- Rowlandson, Mary White, ca 1635-1678, dans la littérature
- Rowlandson, Mary White, ca. 1635-ca. 1678 -- In literature
- Sex in literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- USA
- White women in literature
- Women, White, in literature
- Sexualität -- Motiv | Literatur -- USA
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