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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
2012,2009,2014
Overview
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world.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 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.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli,University of North Carolina Press
Subject
/ America
/ America -- Church history -- Historiography
/ America -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 16th century -- Historiography
/ America -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500 -- Historiography
/ Captivity narratives -- America
/ Colonies
/ Europe
/ Europeans -- America -- Ethnic identity -- Historiography
/ Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
/ HISTORY
/ Intercultural communication -- America -- Historiography
/ Portugal
/ Portugal -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
/ Spain
/ Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
/ To 1500
ISBN
9780807859445, 0807859443, 0807831999, 9780807831991
