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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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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English (eng)
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Rhizomes
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1
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18
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1555-9998
Recommended Citation
Stratton, Billy J., "Deterritorialization, Pure War, and the Consequences of Indian Captivity in Transnational Colonial Discourse" (2012). English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship. 4.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/english_literaryarts_faculty/4
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