Held Captive by Indians
Selected Narratives, 1642-1836
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4040214 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William F Smith, Richard Vanderbeets |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1183919 |
| OpenAlex | W2136389809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Captivity · Catharsis · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Population · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2008 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |