From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention became a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion. At the same time, Pocahontas became the most frequently and variously portrayed female figure in antebellum literature. Robert S. Tilton draws upon the rich tradition of Pocahontas material to examine why her half-historic, half-legendary narrative so engaged the imaginations of Americans from the earliest days of the colonies through the conclusion of the Civil War. Drawing upon a wide variety of primary materials, Tilton reflects on the ways in which the Pocahontas myth was exploded, exploited, and ultimately made to rationalise dangerous preconceptions about the native American tradition.
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Drawing upon a wide variety of primary materials - historical narratives, paintings, dramatic renditions, fictional accounts - Tilton reflects on the ways in which the romantic and exceptional myth of Pocahontas was exploded, exploited, and ultimately made to rationalise dangerous preconceptions about the native American tradition.
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It is not probable that this sensible and amiable woman, perceiving the superiority of the Europeans, foreseeing the probability of the subjugation of her countrymen, and anxious as well to soften their destiny as to save the needless effusion of human blood, desired, by her marriage with Mr. Rolfe, to hasten the abolition of all distinction between Indians and white men; to bind their interests and affections by the nearest and most endearing ties, and to make them regard themselves as one people, the children of the same great family? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Smith, United States, John Rolfe, New World, New England, New York, John Davis, Doņa Marina, Civil War, Hope Leslie, Cousin Franck's Household, George Washington, Thomas Rolfe, The Cavaliers of Virginia, The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, John Randolph, Turkey Island Portrait, Jamie Parker, John Gadsby Chapman, Manifest Destiny, North American Review, Queen Anne, Simon Van de Passe, Thomas Jefferson, Capitol Rotunda New!
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It is not probable that this sensible and amiable woman, perceiving the superiority of the Europeans, foreseeing the probability of the subjugation of her countrymen, and anxious as well to soften their destiny as to save the needless effusion of human blood, desired, by her marriage with Mr. Rolfe, to hasten the abolition of all distinction between Indians and white men; to bind their interests and affections by the nearest and most endearing ties, and to make them regard themselves as one people, the children of the same great family? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
northern historians, rescue scene, rescue story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Smith, United States, John Rolfe, New World, New England, New York, John Davis, Doņa Marina, Civil War, Hope Leslie, Cousin Franck's Household, George Washington, Thomas Rolfe, The Cavaliers of Virginia, The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, John Randolph, Turkey Island Portrait, Jamie Parker, John Gadsby Chapman, Manifest Destiny, North American Review, Queen Anne, Simon Van de Passe, Thomas Jefferson, Capitol Rotunda New!
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- Cousin Franck's Household: Or, Scenes in the Old Dominion, by Pocahontas (Black Heritage Library Collection) by Emily Clemons Pearson on 6 pages
- Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Jefferson on 6 pages
- History and Present State of Virginia (Institute of Early American History) by Robert Beverley on 6 pages
- The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper on 5 pages
- My Lady Pokahontas: A True Relation of Virginia, Written by Anas Todkill, Puritan and Pilgrim by John Cooke on 5 pages
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- Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture by S. Elizabeth Bird on page 12, page 260, and Back Matter
- Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series (American Portrait Series) by Camilla Townsend in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation by Rebecca Blevins Faery in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Aldon Lynn Nielsen in Back Matter
- Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 by Alan Trachtenberg in Back Matter
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