The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict Through the Captivity Literature

by KathrynZabelleDerounian-Stodola (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $94.60

  Examines 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.