Article: Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative

Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. By ROBERT S. TILTON. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 83. ERIC SUNDQUIST, Series Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvi, 251 pp. $39.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. ROBERT S. TILTON'S study of the dominant ways that Pocahontas has been used in American history and culture is consistently interesting. In the first chapter, "Miscegenation and the Pocahontas Narrative in Colonial and Federalist America," Tilton points out that Robert Beverley, in his History and Present State of Virginia (1705), made "the first serious attempt to reproduce the Pocahontas narrative from the primary documents" (p. 16). After ...

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