First, the blog writing: For Wednesday, we are reading Mary Rowlandson’s genre-founding autobiographical account of her captivity narrative as well as other writers’ depictions of Hannah Dustan’s captivity and escape narrative. For this blog, please write about 2-3 points of difference you discover between reading an autobiographical account and an account written by others. For example: do they use different narrative strategies? How do their powers of persuasion differ? Do they give different representations of the captors, the captives, and/or the lands through which the captives are taken? 200-300 words, posted by 11.59pm Tuesday night.
Second, to change up the class format, I want each of you to bring one passage from the texts and present a close reading analysis of it. Please pay attention to the language in the brief passage you choose and, if you choose a passage in Rowlandson pay attention to its relation to the whole text—if you choose a passage from the Dustan selections pay attention to it in comparison with the others. You are entirely free to choose any passage that catches your attention.
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