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Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters And The "Trick-Tongue" Of Captivity, Rebecca L. Harrison
Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters And The "Trick-Tongue" Of Captivity, Rebecca L. Harrison
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Combining the critical lenses of early American scholarship and that of the modern South, “Captive Women, Cunning Texts” investigates the uses and transformations of tropes of captivity drawn from the American Indian captivity narrative by women writers of the Southern Renaissance (circa 1910-45). Specifically, this study examines how captivity narratives, the first American literary form dominated by white women’s experiences as writers and readers, provided the female authors of the Southern Renaissance with a genre ideal for critiquing the roles of women in the South, and the official constructions of southern history. This work interrogates the multifaceted ways in which …