War in Words : Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature
ISBN: 9780803222724
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Nebraska Press
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Subjects: History;

The War in Words is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola examines the complex 1862 Dakota Conflict (also called the Dakota War) by focusing on twenty-four of the dozens of narratives that European Americans and Native Americans wrote about it. This six-week war was the deadliest confrontation between whites and Dakotas in MinnesotaOCOs history. Conducted at the same time as the Civil War, it is sometimes called MinnesotaOCOs Civil War because itawasOCoand continues to beOCoso divisive.

Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola is a professor of English and the director of the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the editor of Women's Indian Captivity Narratives and the coauthor of The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550--1900 .

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