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The Love Biscuit Lodged Under a Log: (Re)tellings of Captivity and Redemption in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Louise Erdrich’s “Captivity”

Connor, Alexandria Elizabeth

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2011, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
This paper aims to uncover the role that culture and religion play in establishing and justifying a fear to love the Other that divides Euro- and Native Americans by examining Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Louise Erdrich’s poem “Captivity.” “Captivity” is a retelling of the Narrative that reveals its primary message: fear to love the Other. Rowlandson’s Narrative justifies the Puritan notion of their superior cultural and religious identity through appeals to religion, sustaining a fear to love the Other. The religious justification of the fear is examined in Erdrich’s “Captivity,” wherein Native American spirituality and Puritan religion are compared and contrasted. Erdrich’s assertion that Native Americans are spiritual renders religious justification of the fear to love the Other invalid. By pulling apart the religious justification into the separate strands of the spiritual and the cultural, it is evident that culture is the cause for divide between the Euro-and Native Americans.
Tereza Szeghi, PhD (Advisor)
John McCombe, PhD (Advisor)
Laura Vorachek, PhD (Other)
68 p.

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  • Connor, A. E. (2011). The Love Biscuit Lodged Under a Log: (Re)tellings of Captivity and Redemption in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Louise Erdrich’s “Captivity” [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1303253297

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Connor, Alexandria. The Love Biscuit Lodged Under a Log: (Re)tellings of Captivity and Redemption in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Louise Erdrich’s “Captivity”. 2011. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1303253297.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Connor, Alexandria. "The Love Biscuit Lodged Under a Log: (Re)tellings of Captivity and Redemption in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Louise Erdrich’s “Captivity”." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1303253297

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)