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

by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803213700
• ISBN13: 9780803213708
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"