Naked and alone in a strange new world : early modern captivity and its mythos / by Benjamin Mark Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Benjamin Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Captivity narratives--America--History and criticism.

Captivity narratives.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Naked and Alone is a comparative analysis of early modern captivity narratives that chronicle the harrowing experiences of a few Iberians and one Hessian in the New World during the century of exploration and colonization. Included among them are the tales of Jerónimo de Aguilar and Gonzalo Guerrero, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Juan Ortiz, Hans Stade, and Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán. After years of captivity that stripped the unfortunate men of their cultural identity, they eventual...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; NOTE ON CITATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-157) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-41488-7

9786612414886

1-4438-1605-1

OCLC:

823721209