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• W30850977 abstract "This essay examines, critically, way popular post-revolutionary captivity narrative, Panther Captivity, challenges model of self influenced by economic ideas about self-regulating natural laws. Among many revolutionary acts that took place in America at end of eighteenth century, some of most striking were stories of women who appeared reluctant to return to civilized society after spending time in wilderness. tales, along with frontier romances, surged in popularity after revolution; many women-authored captivity romances collapsed genres, showing--according to Christopher Castiglia and Sandra Zagarell--how gender roles, nourished by wilderness experience, could be redefined to reinvigorate family and offer newly envisioned communitarian ethic opposed to legalism underlying patriarchal rule. What is most interesting about Panther Captivity, short fictional tale attributed to one Abrham Panther and first published in 1787, is that it does both and neither. The title, emphasizing woman's nine years alone in cave, announces this to be something of romance, an adventure in wilderness. The story, however, is steeped in conventions of post-revolutionary sentimental captivity. But, perhaps most strikingly, in place of resolutions inherent to any of these genres, it offers silence, which like cave itself resonates with mythic power of that which is beyond available categories of imagination. It is tempting to see this enormously popular work about woman who escapes her captors and lives alone in cave in wilderness for nine years as radical feminist text that both critiques exchange of women and offers an alternative, anti-patriarchal perspective. The tale, however, could also be seen to reinforce dominant ideological categories that have been subject of so much recent study. Indeed, as Judith Fetterly has recently noted, great many texts do both at once. Attention of late has been turned from critical reinvention of these tales (to make them coherent as texts and as ideology) to query into what production of contradictory and incoherent texts can tell us about limits--and potentially disruptive power--of literary form as it used to represent contradictions of American society. My approach has affinities to this later model. I am not interested in untangling incoherent strands of Panther Captivity to celebrate or critique subtext of coherent, albeit implicit, values. But, rather than seeing incoherence of text only as mirror of actual historical paradoxes, I take incoherence to be text's central subject of inquiry. My interest in incoherence is undoubtedly product of contemporary critical trends. Keeping that in mind, I nonetheless argue here that questions about coherence as an ideal had their own relevance in post-revolutionary America; study of such texts thus may provide fertile ground for our own inquiries into its meaning and usefulness as critical tool today. Specifically, in this essay I consider incoherence of Panther Captivity as response to cultural crisis about economies of selfhood inflected by competing principles of political economy that were subject of much debate during 1780s. Particularly at issue was very radical, very abstract idea, provided by new science of economics, that the market was a system subject to specific laws that were self-regulating. I argue that form and content of this narrative serve as means to critique view of individual as governed by analogous self-regulating forces and laws. I read tale as an intervention in ideological empowering of idea of autonomous individual. I show ways in which text points to contradictions rather than resolves them and alternatively queries whether it is always good for individuals, or society, to imagine identity as inherently coherent and thus manageable. …" @default.
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• W30850977 title "The Pleasure of Being Lost: The Panther Captivity and the Metaphysics of Commerce" @default.
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