Description
Examining Pocahontas as a representative figure in the cultural imagination of America, this ground-breaking study assesses American women's fiction in terms of gender and ethnicity, offering a major redefinition of ethnic theory and the female literary tradition. Using the figure of Pocahontas as a representative symbol in the American cultural imagination, this is the first study to examine American women's fiction--from Mrs. Wilson's Our Nig to the writings of Anzia Yezierska, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison--in terms of gender and ethnicity, terms that Dearborn finds essential to our understanding of American culture.
