Ethnography and the Production of Foreignness in Indian Captivity Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yael Ben-Zvi
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
Description
Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.