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Essays on Texts

The main focus of the essays in this section will be on print texts about Pocahontas. Other essay sections will focus on images of her, films about her, and other selected topics.

Sarah Ballan

Redeeming the Incidental Indian

Sierra Burris

The Role of Pocahontas during the Debate over Early Nineteenth-Century Indian Removal Policies

Devin Day

The Naked Child Continues Her Somersaults: William T. Vollman's Representations of Pocahontas as Myth in Argall

Michael King

When Fiction Wins: John Davis and the Emergence of a Romantic Pocahontas

Jack Nilles

Telling Truth or Telling Lies: An Examination of the Impact of Robert Dale Owen on the Pocahontas Myth

Jessica Powers

Representations of Pocahontas in Hanay Geiogamah's Foghorn

Joe Reutiman

The Forgotten Kidnapping: The Transformation of the Pocahontas Captivity Story

Carly Scheer

Paula Gunn Allen's "Sendings" from Pocahontas: Engaging with an Unusual Reality

Jacklyn Temares

Custalow's Pocahontas: A Very Different Take on the Classic Tale

Genevieve Wachutka

Myth Making: Appropriation of Pocahontas in Hart Crane's The Bridge

Crystal Williams

Old Stories, New Secrets, and the Birth of History's Artistic License: Malick's The New World