The war in words : reading the Dakota conflict through the captivity literature /
This is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. The author examines the complex 1862 Dakota Conflict (also called the Dakota War) by focusing on twenty-four of the d...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- Martha Riggs Morris & Sarah Wakefield : captivity & protest
- Harriet Bishop McConkey & Isaac Heard : captivity & early Dakota war histories
- Edward S. Ellis : captivity & the dime novel tradition
- Mary Schwandt Schmidt & Jacob Nix : captivity & German Americans
- Jannette DeCamp Sweet, Helen Carrothers Tarble, Lillian Everett Keeney, & Urania White : captivity & the antiquarian impulse
- Benedict Juni : captivity & the boy's adventure story
- Samuel J. Brown & Joseph Godfrey : captivity & credit
- Paul Mazakutemani : captivity & spiritual autobiography
- Cecelia Campbell Stay & Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan : captivity & bicultural women's identity
- Big Eagle, Lorenzo Lawrence, & Maggie Brass : captivity & cultural stereotypes
- Good Star Woman : captivity & ethnography
- Esther Wakeman & Joseph Coursolle : captivity & oral history
- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve : captivity & counter captivity