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- University of North Carolina Press
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- Copyright © 2002 by The University of North Carolina Press.
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- 1534-147X
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Abstract
KATHLEEN DONEGAN Yale University ``As Dying, Yet Behold We Live'' Catastrophe and Interiority in Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation For it is found in experience that change of air, famine or unwholesome food, much drinking of water, sorrows and troubles, etc., all of them are enemies to health, causes of many diseases, consumers of natural vigour and the bodies of men, and shorteners of life. And yet of all these things they had a large part and suffered deeply in the same. . . . What was it then that upheld them? . . . He that upheld the Apostle upheld them. . . . ``As unknown, and yet known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed.'' --William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation What returns to haunt the victim, these stories tell us, is not only the reality of the violent event but also the reality of the way that its violence has not yet been fully known. --Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History One of the most contested sites in early American studies is also one of the broadest: the space of colonial identity itself. Searching for the story of just how
Journal
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Mar 1, 2002