"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
TenHuisen, Dwight E.R.
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Title
"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
Author(s)
TenHuisen, Dwight E.R.
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Palencia-Roth, Michael
Department of Study
Comparative Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Germanic
Language
eng
Abstract
The diverse strands and varied emphases of the rich hagiographic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages are used to express startlingly different world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic of early modern colonial writing. It also suggests that the author's particular religious ideology influences their interpretation of self and Other. By examining captivity narratives seldom included in North American criticism, this study also contradicts the frequent assertion that the subject's desire to possess determines the representation of the Other.
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