Also known as: Captivity narratives, Captive memoirs
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Captivity narratives are first-person accounts in which white witnesses describe their seizure, survival, and negotiation inside insurgent or revolutionary-controlled space. In the Haitian archive, they are some of the most biased texts and some of the most revealing.
Jean François Papillon
Her epistolary novel participates in the captivity narrative tradition — a white woman in a collapsing colonial city — while departing from it through its social and domestic detail.
Captivity Narratives
Captivity Narratives
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