05421nam 2200733Ia 450 991082677680332120200520144314.00-8122-0367-410.9783/9780812203677(CKB)2670000000418313(OCoLC)859161153(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748629(SSID)ssj0000980755(PQKBManifestationID)11985284(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980755(PQKBWorkID)10969917(PQKB)10911567(MdBmJHUP)muse27915(DE-B1597)449220(OCoLC)979954198(DE-B1597)9780812203677(Au-PeEL)EBL3442197(CaPaEBR)ebr10748629(CaONFJC)MIL682386(MiAaPQ)EBC3442197(EXLCZ)99267000000041831320060511d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe captive's position female narrative, male identity, and royal authority in colonial New England /Teresa A. Toulouse1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20071 online resource (234 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51104-7 0-8122-3958-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.Front matter --Contents --1. Female Captivity, Royal Authority, and Male Identity in Colonial New England, 1682-1707 --2. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God in 1682: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative and the "Fathers' " Defense --3. Deference and Difference: Female Captivity and Male Ambivalence --4. The Uses of Female Humiliation: Judea Capta, Hannah Dustan, and Hannah Swarton in the 1690's --5. Hannah Dustan's Bodies: Domestic Violence and Third-Generation Male Identity in Cotton Mather's Decennium Luctuosum --6. Returning to Zion: Cultural Competition and John Williams's The Redeemed Captive --7. The Seduction of the ''Father( s)" --Coda Dux Faemina Facta/Dux Faemina Facti --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsWhy do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative-one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity. Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so, The Captive's Position offers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.Indian captivitiesNew EnglandHistoryWomenNew EnglandHistory17th centurySourcesWomen in literatureIndians in literatureSex role in literatureIndians of North AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775New EnglandHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Indian captivitiesHistory.WomenHistoryWomen in literature.Indians in literature.Sex role in literature.Indians of North AmericaHistory305.40974090Toulouse Teresa1607359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826776803321The captive's position3933598UNINA