Literary Hangover

Literary Hangover is a podcast, released twice on Saturdays each month, in which Matt Lech and his friends chat about fiction and the historical, social, and political forces behind the creation of it and represented by it.

18 - King Philip's War & 'The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' (1682)
Saturday, March 16, 2019
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On this episode, Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss King Philip's War (or Metacomet's Rebellion) and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson that resulted from it. The economic, legal, and cultural forces that drove Metacomet and the Wampanoags to take up arms against the settlers. Praying Indians at Harvard and the Eliot Indian bible as a cultural weapon. Captivity and missionary narratives as "safe" ways for colonists to experience the wilderness. Extended excerpts from the Mary Rowlandson's narrative. Tobacco.

References:

'500 Nations' miniseries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJApxO6auE&t=965s

Slotkin, Richard. 1973. Regeneration through violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

WARREN, JAMES A. 2019. GOD, WAR, AND PROVIDENCE: the epic struggle of roger williams and the narragansett indians ... against the puritans of new england. SCRIBNER.

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