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It was on the frontier, where &;civilized&; men and women confronted the &;wilderness,&; that Europeans first became Americans&;or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians.
For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890&;1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens&; individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers&; contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation&;s &;soul.&; Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives&;through statues, parks, and reissued narratives&;small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story.
By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define &;Americanism&; and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, &;manliness,&; and patriotism. In Varley&;s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot.
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time&;with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy&;Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890&;1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens&; individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers&; contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation&;s &;soul.&; Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives&;through statues, parks, and reissued narratives&;small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story.
By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define &;Americanism&; and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, &;manliness,&; and patriotism. In Varley&;s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot.
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time&;with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy&;Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
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Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
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University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2014
ISBN 10: 0806144939
ISBN 13: 9780806144931
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a small lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and faint smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, and mild edge wear with some faint rubbing to the covers. Codice articolo 204163
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