Packet 5: Tossup 8

Richard Slotkin reads conventions in this genre like the “black eucharist” as the “myth-literature” underlying its era’s social crises in the early chapters of Regeneration Through Violence. In a work in this genre structured as 20 “removes,” the author kneels for nine days before her sick baby dies in her lap, but is given a bible from a basket for comfort. (10[1])In a work in this genre published in both sermon form and in the Magnalia Christi Americana by Cotton Mather, Hannah Duston kills 10 (-5[1])people with an ax. (10[1])17th-century America’s first bestseller was a work in this genre (10[1]-5[1])published as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, (-5[2])which describes the 11 weeks that followed the burning (10[1])of the author’s village (10[1]-5[1])during King (-5[1])Philip’s War. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, in what genre did authors like Mary Rowlandson (10[1]-5[1])recount being taken (-5[2])prisoner (10[1])by Native (10[2])Americans? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[11])

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