"The Sons of New-England ": Barbary Captivity and the Transatlantic Production of Anglo-American Identities.
This essay proposes a fresh approach to New English accounts of Barbary captivity--one that considers how captivity and enslavement in North Africa influenced peripheral subjects' sense of Englishness during the construction of a "new" England in North America. Juxtaposing narratives of New English...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 56 - 95 |
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