Held Captive by Indians by Richard Vanderbeets
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780870498404 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870498401 |
| Title | Held Captive by Indians |
| Author | Richard Vanderbeets |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 1984-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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