Editor’s Introduction for NANO Special Issue 14: Captivity Narratives Then and Now: Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Culture

Abstract

Introductory article by Megan Behrent: Captivity Narratives then and now: gender, race, and the captive in twentieth and twenty first century American literature and culture. In exploring tropes of captivity in contemporary popular media, this issue of NANO draws on existing scholarship to reflect on the particular resonance of the genre in the early part of the twenty-first century.

Keywords

• captivity narratives
• introduction
• academic article
• literature