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Allegories of Encounter

Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities

Andrew Newman

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Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books.

In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.

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Discourse Community, Mary Rowlandson, Bible literacy, dLiterary culture, Psalms, Requickening, Intertextuality, Jesuits, Ethnohistory, James Smith, John Marrant, Literacy in Colonial America, Mohawks, King Philip’s War, Thomas Morris, Literacy practices, Kateri Tekakwitha, Isaac Jogues, Allegory, Narratology, Puritans, Eunice Williams, Algonquian peoples, Indian captivities, Literacy events, Typology, Captivity narratives, French and Indian Wars, John Williams