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FROM CAPTORS TO CAPTIVES: AMERICAN INDIAN RESPONSES TO
POPULAR AMERICAN NARRATIVE FORMS
by
Theresa Lynn Gregor
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Theresa Lynn Gregor
Object Description
| Title | From captors to captives: American Indian responses to popular American narrative forms |
| Author | Gregor, Theresa Lynn |
| Author email | theresagregor@yahoo.com; theresagregor@sandiego.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-11-30 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-02-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Modleski, Tania |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McKenna, Teresa Sanchez, George |
| Abstract | From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms examines the metamorphosis of the American Indian captivity narrative, its evolution in the American western and its function as a common trope in the American/Indian romance, as well as the genre’s most recent appearance and function in American/Indian poetry, prose, and film. Throughout my explication of the history, evolution, and current production of the genre, I interrogate the representational constraints of and the possibilities to transform American/Indian subjectivity while carefully taking into account the actual affect such representations have on the daily life of Native American peoples and cultures.; The American captivity narrative occupies a contested space in American literature. On the one hand, many American Studies scholars believe that the production of the captivity narrative marked the beginning of a new “American” literary tradition. The unique genre eventually evolved to encompass a wide range of fiction and auto/biography. In each of these distinct, yet related forms the captivity plot revolves around a familiar power dynamic: a member of a majority group dominates a member of a minority group; the members of the majority group are the indigenous people and the members of the minority group are white Euro-Americans. Historically, the Indian captivity plot resolves with the ransom, escape, or transculturation of the captive. If we re-map the borders of the captivity narrative genre to include narratives of Indian captives, such as the experiences of countless natives forced to attend American/Indian boarding schools and the hundreds of thousands of aboriginal peoples relocated to and surviving on federal Indian reservations, then we open up a discursive field in which to address the complex parameters surrounding Indian subject formation and its subsequent representations in American culture. |
| Keyword | American Indians; Native Americans; identity; repatriation; subject formation; captivity narrative; western; women's romance; desire; love story |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2846 |
| Rights | Gregor, Theresa Lynn |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gregor-3488 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Gregor-3488.pdf |
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| Full text | FROM CAPTORS TO CAPTIVES: AMERICAN INDIAN RESPONSES TO POPULAR AMERICAN NARRATIVE FORMS by Theresa Lynn Gregor ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Theresa Lynn Gregor |
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