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The article examines U.S. Southern poet Beatrice Witte Ravenel's use of the early American captivity narrative trope to critique the contemporary confinement of women under male authority in her poems "Sanute the Chief" and "The Jesuit Missionaries." These captivity tropes are connected to historical conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers. It is argued that these tropes work to subvert U.S. national identity and traditional understandings of race.

Reviews the book "Ambrose de Officiis," edited and translated by Ivor J. Davidson.

Review the book "Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Early Christian Era," vol. 1 edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown and Jane E. Jeffrey.