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Advanced Seminar
WiSe 22/23: Captivity Narrative
Ulla Haselstein
Comments
Captivity Narratives are frontier literature: they exist because of the violent conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples. As the frontier moved, the cultural function of the texts varied over time, and so did their form, and even their main story line: what began as religious writing was later turned into journalistic reports or sensationalist dime novels. Most texts legitimize settler colonialism, some express concern about the dispossession of the native population; while most captives written about were either able to free themselves or ransomed by their families, some decided to remain with their captors, while yet others moved back and forth between the cultures.
The seminar will discuss different examples of the genre from the 17th to the 19th century, and also include historiographic retellings of captivities written in the 20th and 21st century. We will assess the mode of narration and the drift of the respective textual argument, but also attempt to read against the grain and probe into what is left unsaid.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2022-10-18 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-10-25 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-11-01 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-11-15 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-11-22 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-11-29 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-12-06 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-12-13 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-01-03 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-01-10 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-01-17 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-01-24 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-01-31 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-02-07 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2023-02-14 12:00 - 14:00