White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier Paperback - 1993
by June Namias
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White Captives offers a new analysis of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier. June Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture. She demonstrates that these captivity materials, which most often feature as victims white women and children (the most vulnerable members of their communities), vividly portray anxieties about gender and ethnicity on the frontier and in American society. Namias begins by comparing the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers, from colonial New England to mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota, and explores how the stories transformed victims of historical circumstance into heroes and heroines. She then uses the narratives of three captives - Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield - as case studies, arguing that they describe the fears of sexual contact between native cultures and white settlers and illustrate issues of female survival, independence, and competence. Moreover, she finds that these and other stories also reflect the major role of women and children in the migration process. According to Namias, both the historical reality and the reworked tales of capture offered white Americans new ways of looking at gender and ethnic relations by contrasting their own roles and value with those presumed to be Indian. Thus, while elements of horror, propaganda, mythmaking, and ethnographic documentary characterized the accounts, captivity materials served a larger purpose by providinga framework for notions of gender and cultural conflict on the frontier.
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- Title White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier
- Author June Namias
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
- Date 1993-04-01
- ISBN 9780807844083 / 080784408X
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.21 x 1.06 in (23.42 x 15.77 x 2.69 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-31235
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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