Pocahontas: A Poem
Pocahontas: A Poem

Author: Virginia Carter Castleman

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 1907-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1465507019

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Many dark-eyed children played among the rushes By the waters of the inland, plain-like marshes, Made them water babies of the tall brown cattails, Cradled in the baskets of the plaited willows. Of them all was none more gleeful, none more artless Than the little Matoax, dearest of the daughters Of the mighty Werowance, Powhatan the warrior Ruler of the tribes, from whom was named the river And the wigwam village and the dark-skinned natives.

A History of Virginia Literature
A History of Virginia Literature

Author: Kevin J. Hayes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1316299171

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A History of Virginia Literature chronicles a story that has been more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the twenty-first century. Divided into four main parts, this History examines the literature of colonial Virginia, Jeffersonian Virginia, Civil War Virginia, and modern Virginia. Individual chapters survey such literary genres as diaries, histories, letters, novels, poetry, political writings, promotion literature, science fiction, and slave narratives. Leading scholars also devote special attention to several major authors, including William Byrd of Westover, Thomas Jefferson, Ellen Glasgow, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Styron. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of American literature and of American studies more generally.

Pocahontas
Pocahontas

Author: Robert S. Tilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-11-25

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780521469593

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Centering around her legendary rescue of Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention developed into a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion.

Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots
Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots

Author: Monique Mojica

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780889611658

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"An angry, humorous and loving search for the truth behind the myth and legend of the 'Indian princess.' With her powerful words, Monique Mojica lays bare the hearts and minds of Pocahontas, Malinche, Sacajawea and the uncounted native women who first met and fought the European invasion of our lands. Moving across and through time, Mojica engages our imagination, our spirit, and invites us to witness this time-travel of exploding illusions and delusions, to the triumph and honesty of survival"-Beth Brant-- Back cover.

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Author: Camilla Townsend

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2005-09-07

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1429930772

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Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.