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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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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