Abstract:
The present dissertation investigates the theme of religion in Mary White Rowlandson's A True History of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. These two works had been analyzed using Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicism. Thus, with a special focus on the socio-historical context in which the two narratives emerged, I have attempted to deconstruct previous thoughts and tried to clarify the notions of captivity and slavery as employed in the two narratives. Moreover, this work has included a detailed comparison between the captivity narrative and the slave narrative and the two authors' use of religion
