Ethnography and the production of foreignness in Indian captivity narratives.(Essay)

From: The American Indian Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Since studies of Native American cultures have long been entangled in ethnographic discourse, it's not surprising that ethnography has entered literary and historical discussions of Indian captivity narratives. Ethnography has been perceived as a discursive bridge between different cultures, and captivity narratives' settings--despite their wide geographic distribution--have almost invariably been imagined as contact zones that forced hitherto foreigners into uneasy familiarity. (1) In the case of Indian captivity narratives, this motif of encounter or "middle ground" was coupled ...

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