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Pocahontas, Little Wanton
Neil Rennie
其他書名
Myth, Life and Afterlife
出版Quaritch, 2007
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Social Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN09550852689780955085260
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7U8OAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Pocahontas - meaning 'Little Wanton' or playful one - is famous for something she may or may not have done four hundred years ago: rescue the English colonist John Smith from execution by her father, Powhatan, the Indian paramount chief of the Virginia area. Pocahontas, Little Wanton investigates the legendary rescue and separates the known facts of her life and death in England from the myths about her. The book then follows the posthumous history of her story, as it is told and retold over the centuries by historians, dramatists, poets, novelists and film-makers who formed her into an American national icon, repeatedly rescuing the colonial Englishman from the indigenous Indian. Pocahontas, Little Wanton is the first book to combine an account of her brief life with the history of her long, ambiguous afterlife, as an American Indian heroine."--pub. desc.