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Relationality and the Autobiographical “I” in Mary Rowlandson

On relationality in autobiographical acts, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson in Reading Autobiography write, “This concept of relationality, implying that one’s story is bound up in that of another, suggests that the boundaries of an ‘I’ are often shifting and … Continue reading

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Cabeza de Vaca: Tragedy and the Other in the Contact Era

Cabeza de Vaca was a sixteenth century Spanish Conquistador that explored the New World during the Narvaez expedition that set sail in 1527. His narrative details this failed expedition and the decade in which he experienced shipwreck, survival in the … Continue reading

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