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The Captivity Narrative

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The Captivity Narrative	comment	A Forgotten Trope in which a good, Puritan girl is captured by Indians and has to resist their culture, the Captivity Narrative was pretty popular in America from the 17th-19th centuries. These were often folktales that were made up long before the printing press and other forms of culture were readily available in remote settlements. These, oftentimes, exploited The Savage Indian archetype for the sake of Rule of Cool or Rule of Drama. Many of the early examples were based on true-life stories, fictionalized a bit to tell a more exciting story, but later they became more overtly fictional. A variation of this trope—a white woman is kidnapped by Indians, but chooses to stay with them because they are Closer to Earth noble savages—has become common in modern romance novels. The trope has its roots in a much older mediaeval one where virtuous European Christians were kidnapped by Muslim corsairs and offered to convert to Islam over the course of their captivity. Unlike the later American version, this would virtually never end with the protagonist joining the natives. Per the dogmatic religious mores of Europe at the time, the aesop of those stories was the nobility of persevering through suffering to hold to your beliefs. Contrast Going Native, in which assimilation to the native culture is framed as a good thing rather than a bad one. See also Damsel in Distress and the more hazardous version of this trope, Captured by Cannibals. Examples
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The Captivity Narrative / int_1786e1ea	comment	The Emerald Forest is a subversion because it is a young boy who is kidnapped and then adopted into the tribe. Also, after he is rescued, he chooses Going Native.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_1fc30aa6	comment	Believe it or not, The Last of the Mohicans of The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper is actually a subversion of this. ("No, Magua's not going to rape her, or torture her, or kill her, or even tie her up. He just took her because he doesn't like you.")
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The Captivity Narrative / int_286b6994	comment	A futuristic example occurs in Tribes: Vengeance when the Imperial princess Victoria is kidnapped by the Tribals while space-traveling. The Tribals in this case are just as technologically advanced as the Imperials, but living in the harsh conditions of fringe planets made them adopt many customs viewed down upon as barbaric by the Imperials, pre-conditioning Victoria to fear and loathe her captors (at first).
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The Captivity Narrative / int_3441793	comment	The Last of the Mohicans has this trope as a subplot, where two white British women are captured by Indians, but rescued by the heroes of the film, who also happen to be Indians. One of the Indians is a white man who was adopted by them. The three heroes save the girls on multiple occasions, leading to romance and assimilation.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_41127976	comment	This genre is parodied in a skit entitled "My Captivity by Savages" by the band Rasputina on the album Frustration Plantation.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_45455579	comment	Discussed in Dickinson when Lavinia, a young lady in 19th-century Massachussetts, starts fantasizing about getting abducted by Indians and becoming their princess to show up a man she liked who rejected her.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_46cfecdf	comment	Subverted in When This World Is All On Fire: The main character, a Native American, takes the white girl home to her family when he catches her trying to rob a store.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_58774c3b	comment	Eva in Hell on Wheels has this as her backstory, having been kidnapped in her youth and her chin tattooed. Based on a True Story, that of Olive Oatman, who was similarly kidnapped and tattooed in 1851.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_6172e7b9	comment	The Town: This book is the third in a trilogy about life on the Ohio frontier called "The Awakening Land". In the first book, protagonist Sayward's little sister Sulie disappears in the forest. Decades later in book 3, Sayward finds out what happened: Sulie was kidnapped by the Lenape (Delaware) tribe. Sayward meets her sister, now a fully assimilated Lenape who speaks You No Take Candle English and refuses to admit that she is the long-lost Sulie Luckett. Sayward can't decide whether or not it was better to find out, or whether or not it would have been better for Sulie to die in the woods as a child.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_b33a25c7	comment	A modern subversion: in The Searchers (1956), the plot motor is whether John Wayne's bitter protagonist will rescue or shoot his Indian-kidnapped niece once he finally finds her, for the fear that she has been assimilated and tainted by evil savages. The Searchers is based on captivity narratives written about Cynthia Parker.note She was captured at a young age and raised like any other Comanche child, and found a loving husband. She did not consent to be “rescued” some 24 years later and separated from her children, including the Comanche leader Quanah Parker..
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The Captivity Narrative / int_bdee0057	comment	Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: the young sister of the titular character is kidnapped along with Hope herself and her sweetheart Everell. At first it seems as if Hope and Everell will be executed by the evil Indians, until in a moment swiped right out of the Pocahontas story, the Indian princess Magawisca saves both their lives, resulting in their eventual release. Later, Hope's sister Faith is allowed to reunite with her family—but while she has proven unable to resist Indian culture, so that Hope and her family feel they have lost Faith forever (no one ever said the story wasn't Anvilicious), the fact Faith returns to be with the people she's come to see as her family and is much happier for it is played out with surprising sympathy and generosity.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_e89f5bd5	comment	Martín Fierro: Even when is placed at The Pampas (Argentina) instead of North America, the idea of a white woman kidnapped by The Savage Indian is present at this Narrative Poem: At song III in Book I, Martin Fierro says that the women of The Pioneer and Determined Homesteaders at the Frontier are captured by the Indians attacks. At the songs VII to X of the Second Book, Martin Fierro narrates how he helped a captive woman to escape the Indians and come back to the Frontier.
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The Captivity Narrative / int_f01be35d	comment	Blood Brothers of Gor recycles this trope in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Plains Indians IN SPACE!, applying it both to an Earth-woman brought to Gor and to a native Gorean woman from a more "civilized" culture, both of whom find themselves as captives of the red savages. Gor being Gor, they (and all the other female captives) end up finding Happiness in Slavery.
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