LEADER 05421nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910826776803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0367-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203677 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418313 035 $a(OCoLC)859161153 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748629 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11985284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10969917 035 $a(PQKB)10911567 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27915 035 $a(DE-B1597)449220 035 $a(OCoLC)979954198 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442197 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682386 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442197 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418313 100 $a20060511d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe captive's position $efemale narrative, male identity, and royal authority in colonial New England /$fTeresa A. Toulouse 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51104-7 311 $a0-8122-3958-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1. Female Captivity, Royal Authority, and Male Identity in Colonial New England, 1682-1707 --$t2. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God in 1682: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative and the "Fathers' " Defense --$t3. Deference and Difference: Female Captivity and Male Ambivalence --$t4. The Uses of Female Humiliation: Judea Capta, Hannah Dustan, and Hannah Swarton in the 1690's --$t5. Hannah Dustan's Bodies: Domestic Violence and Third-Generation Male Identity in Cotton Mather's Decennium Luctuosum --$t6. Returning to Zion: Cultural Competition and John Williams's The Redeemed Captive --$t7. The Seduction of the ''Father( s)" --$tCoda Dux Faemina Facta/Dux Faemina Facti --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhy 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. 606 $aIndian captivities$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century$vSources 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aIndians of North America$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aNew England$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 615 0$aIndian captivities$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory 676 $a305.40974090 700 $aToulouse$b Teresa$01607359 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826776803321 996 $aThe captive's position$93933598 997 $aUNINA