| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives. By Pauline Turner Strong. (Boulder: Westview, 1999. xvii, 261 pp. $60.00, isbn 0-8133-1665-0.)

Captive Selves, Captivating Others by Pauline Turner Strong is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing field of captivity narrative studies. In 1993, the first full-length analyses devoted solely to the Indian captivity narrative form were published: June Namias's mostly historical approach in White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier and my own book, coauthored with James A. Levernier, taking a mostly critical approach, The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550–1900. Since then, a steady stream of historical and critical monographs, anthologies, and editions of individual accounts (as well as many articles) has appeared, making this area especially dynamic. Most of these publications have, indeed, been written by historians (especially ethnohistorians) and literary critics. Captive Selves, Captivating Others not only incorporates these other studies but adds the important dimension of an anthropological approach to colonial encounters between Europeans and Native Americans. . . .

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