PT Journal
AU Furlanetto Dr., E
TI Lovely Renegades: Seduction and Conversion in Susanna Rowson’s 'Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom'
SO Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel
SE UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre
PY 2022
BP 70
EP 80
IS 58
DI 10.17185/duepublico/76300
LA en
AB The genre of the Barbary captivity narrative lingers on the convergence of conversion and seduction. The temptation to share the Algerian masters’ beds and religion represents a source of anxiety for the white American protagonists of eighteenth-century Barbary captivity literature and inspires dramatic gestures of resistance.
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