Cartographies of desire : captivity, race, and sex in the shaping of an American nation

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Faery, Rebecca Blevins

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"In Cartographies of Desire, Rebecca Faery argues that two recurring literary and cultural figures - the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden - have played a key rol...

"In Cartographies of Desire, Rebecca Faery argues that two recurring literary and cultural figures - the white woman taken captive by Indians and the welcoming Indian maiden - have played a key role in constructing the geographic and ideological maps of the United States. Across contested territory, symbolized by the woman's body, concepts of race and sex have helped shape the evolving American identity. Faery shows that the colonizers' desire for land fused with their desire for Native women. Likewise, the effort to "protect" white women from the presumed desire of dark men, Indian and African, became an insistence on the colonists' right to guard territory taken or desired."--BOOK JACKET.

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