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Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola is a professor of English and the director of the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the editor of Women's Indian Captivity Narratives and the coauthor of The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900. Klappentext The War in Words is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola examines the complex 1862 Dakota Conflict (also called the Dakota War) by focusing on twenty-four of the dozens of narratives that European Americans and Native Americans wrote about it. This six-week war was the deadliest confrontation between whites and Dakotas in Minnesota's history. Conducted at the same time as the Civil War, it is sometimes called Minnesota's Civil War because it was-and continues to be-so divisive. The Dakota Conflict aroused impassioned prose from participants and commentators as they disputed causes, events, identity, ethnicity, memory, and the all-important matter of the war's legacy. Though the study targets one region, its ramifications reach far beyond Minnesota in its attention to war and memory. An ethnography of representative Dakota Conflict narratives and an analysis of the war's historiography, The War in Words includes new archival information, historical data, and textual criticism. Zusammenfassung Examines the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola examines the complex 1862 Dakota Conflict (also called the Dakota War) by focusing on twenty-four of the dozens of narratives that European Americans and Native Americans wrote about it. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of Narratives and Their Chronological ContextsMethodologyHistorical Perspectives on the Dakota War Part 1. European Americans Narrating CaptivityIntroduction1. Martha Riggs Morris and Sarah Wakefield: Captivity and Protest2. Harriet Bishop McConkey and Isaac Heard: Captivity and Early Dakota War Histories3. Edward S. Ellis: Captivity and the Dime Novel Tradition4. Mary Schwandt Schmidt and Jacob Nix: Captivity and German Americans5. Jannette DeCamp Sweet, Helen Carrothers Tarble, Lillian Everett Keeney, and Urania White: Captivity and the Antiquarian Impulse6. Benedict Juni: Captivity and the Boy's Adventure Story Part 2. Native Americans Narrating CaptivityIntroduction7. Samuel J. Brown and Joseph Godfrey: Captivity and Credit8. Paul Mazakutemani: Captivity and Spiritual Autobiography9. Cecelia Campbell Stay and Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan: Captivity and Bicultural Women's Identity10. Big Eagle, Lorenzo Lawrence, and Maggie Brass: Captivity and Cultural Stereotypes11. Good Star Woman: Captivity and Ethnography12. Esther Wakeman and Joseph Coursolle: Captivity and Oral History13. Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: Captivity and Counter Captivity Conclusion: Captive to the Past? The Legacy of the Dakota WarNotesWorks CitedIndex...
