Publication Date

2012

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The genre of the captivity narrative has operated as a vital circuit for transnational colonial discourse since its inception. Throughout the age of discovery, accounts of the captivity became an indispensible means of connecting the European metropole to foreign lands in Asia and Africa, as well as North and South America. The development of the Indian captivity narrative within the Atlantic context functioned as an effective tool for the dissemination of knowledge concerning the New World and its Indigenous inhabitants. In this essay, I examine some of the ways in which the captivity narrative functions as a colonial apparatus vital to the process of what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari refer to as deterriorialization.

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This article was originally published as:

Stratton, B. J. (2012). Deterritorialization, pure war, and the consequences of Indian captivity in transnational colonial discourse. Rhizomes 24. Retrieved from http://rhizomes.net/issue24/stratton.html

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Billy J. Stratton

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Language

English (eng)

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18 pgs

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471 KB

Publication Title

Rhizomes

First Page

1

Last Page

18

ISSN

1555-9998



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