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Captivity, Past and Present: A Compendium of Observations and Interpretations
Editor: Benjamin Mark Allen
Date Of Publication: Mar 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2690-7
Isbn: 1-4438-2690-1
Captivity, Past and Present is a compilation of historical, literary, and sociological analyses of tales of human bondage from the early modern era to more recent times. Beginning with a study of 16th-century Spanish captivity sagas that emanated from America, the essays go on to examine the 17th-century Puritan narrative of Mary Rowlandson, the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and concludes with a study of incarcerated African-American mothers in the United States. Also included is an original captivity narrative that relates the 19th-century ordeal of Manuel Ramirez Martinez, who was captured by Comanche Indians in Texas.

The studies originated in a conference hosted by the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association in 2010. Contributors are Franklin Hillson, Jacquelynn Kleist, Jacob Massine, Dahia Messara, Julia Metzger-Traber, Alfonso Uribe and Joel Uribe.

Benjamin Mark Allen is author of Naked and Alone: Early Modern Captivity and Its Mythos (2009). He is Assistant Professor of History at South Texas College in McAllen, Texas, USA, and also serves as the area chair regarding captivity narratives for the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association.

“By assessing historical, political, social, and psychological dimensions of captivity experiences from colonial Spanish and British North America to the present, this multidisciplinary study explores complexities in this rich if darker side of the frontiers where disparate cultures met. Revealed are the rituals, thought processes, and cycles common to captivity narratives that students of social history in general and borderlands in particular will find compelling and worth a second look.”

—William B. Carter, author of Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750

“A timely collection of well-researched articles that covers origins, classical texts, and contemporary experiences—even a first printing of an original captivity narrative is included. . . . A meaningful contribution to the field of study!”

—Professor Sämi Ludwig (UHA Mulhouse, France), author of Cognitive Realism: The Pragmatist Paradigm in American Literary Realism

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