Red Crosscurrents: Performative Spaces and Indian Cultural Authority in the Florida Atlantic Captivity Narrative of Jonathan Dickinson. Anderson & Gary, E. Mississippi Quarterly, 65(1):17--32, 2012.
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The article examines the cultural importance of the journal of Indian captive Jonathan Dickinson, "God's Protecting Providence," which was written in 1699 after Dickinson and his shipmates were taken captive after a shipwreck by Florida Indians. It focuses on how Dickinson's narrative raises a discussion of cultural identity and the role of performance in assertion of authority and identification. Other topics discussed include why Dickinson's narrative has not been used as a culturally significant text in Southern literature studies, the relevance of captivity narratives in understanding the Indian identity in the Gulf South during the seventeenth century, and how Dickinson and his crew escaped the Indians.
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  volume = {65},
  issn = {0026637X},
  shorttitle = {Red {Crosscurrents}},
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  abstract = {The article examines the cultural importance of the journal of Indian captive Jonathan Dickinson, "God's Protecting Providence," which was written in 1699 after Dickinson and his shipmates were taken captive after a shipwreck by Florida Indians. It focuses on how Dickinson's narrative raises a discussion of cultural identity and the role of performance in assertion of authority and identification. Other topics discussed include why Dickinson's narrative has not been used as a culturally significant text in Southern literature studies, the relevance of captivity narratives in understanding the Indian identity in the Gulf South during the seventeenth century, and how Dickinson and his crew escaped the Indians.},
  number = {1},
  urldate = {2015-09-26TZ},
  journal = {Mississippi Quarterly},
  author = {Anderson, Eric Gary},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {CAPTIVITY narratives, CULTURAL identity, DICKINSON, Jonathan, 1663-1722, GOD'S Protecting Providence (Book), HISTORY, NATIVE American captivities, SOUTHERN States},
  pages = {17--32}
}

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