Captivity Literature and the Environment
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American
American Indian Autobiography
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authorship
Black Hawk
Black Hawk War
captivity
Captivity Narratives
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cross-cultural narrative analysis
Cypripedium
Eliot's Bible
environment
environmental attitudes
environmental justice in captivity narratives
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ethnicity
Fort Mackinac
Genesee River
Genus Cypripedium
Glen Iris
Great Slide
Indian Captivity Narrative
Indian Relocation
Indian Removal
indigenous environmental justice
Jacksonian era studies
Jefferson Barracks
John Tanner
Lady's Slipper
land policy impact
land-use policy
landscape
literary themes
literature
Moccasin Flower
narratives
Native American Autobiography
Native American Removal
Native American resistance literature
Native Orchids
nature
nineteenth century
nineteenth-century American history
Rowlandson's Narrative
Site Specific Inhabitation
Tanner's Life
Tanner's Narrative
themes
USA
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- ISBN 9780367140434
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for justice has never been ceded.
Kyhl D. Lyndgaard is Director of First Year Seminar and Writing Centers at St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, USA.
