Research Article
Captivity and the Unsettled Self: Mary Rowlandson, King Philip’s War, and the Making of Early American Narrative
Stacie Connell*
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2026
Pages:
83-90
Received:
15 October 2025
Accepted:
27 October 2025
Published:
27 July 2026
Abstract: This study examines Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (1682) as a foundational text in early American literature that connects theology, trauma, and identity through the framework of liminality and the unsettled self. Rowlandson’s narrative reflects the complex relationship between Puritan orthodoxy and psychological survival under harsh and often violent conditions during King Philip’s War. Through close textual analysis in conjunction with critical scholarship (Kolodny, Burnham, Derounian-Stodola, Logan), the research provided investigates how Rowlandson’s narrative of captivity negotiates the limitations of identity, gender, cultural belonging, and religion within a patriarchal, colonial society. The analysis demonstrates that the segmented “Removes” within the narrative structure not only physical displacement but also a spiritual and psychological transformation, moving the protagonist through a liminal phase of self-remapping. The results imply that Rowlandson’s text functions as both a personal testimony and a genre-defining captivity narrative highlighting tensions between female agency, trauma, and spiritual authority. The results establish Rowlandson’s narrative as a lasting framework for American captivity tales, foregrounding questions of liminal space, identity, survival, and the negotiation of cultural binaries. Ultimately, the Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration is a critical discourse on readings of early American cultural production and its negotiation of colonial and spiritual boundaries.
Abstract: This study examines Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (1682) as a foundational text in early American literature that connects theology, trauma, and identity through the framework of liminality and the unsettled self. Rowlandson’s narrative reflects the complex relationship between Puritan orthodoxy and psychological su...
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Research Article
Analysis of Research on the Factors of Speech Comprehension
Lobar Kambarova*
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2026
Pages:
91-95
Received:
4 November 2025
Accepted:
17 November 2025
Published:
28 July 2026
DOI:
10.11648/j.sdps.20260103.12
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Abstract: Understanding speech requires a number of factors. Acoustic data goes through several stages from reception to processing in the brain. When studying international experience in neurolinguistics, it can be seen that the main attention is paid to the study of what processes occur in the brain during speech perception, what factors influence speech comprehension. Through the analysis of research, it is possible to increase information on neurolinguistics in the Uzbek language, to form an idea of how to conduct research in this direction. In the perception of speech, information is provided about the presence of such terms as speech envelope, fine structure, such phenomena as cocktail party, McGurk effect.
Abstract: Understanding speech requires a number of factors. Acoustic data goes through several stages from reception to processing in the brain. When studying international experience in neurolinguistics, it can be seen that the main attention is paid to the study of what processes occur in the brain during speech perception, what factors influence speech c...
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