Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca
Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives
Edited by Kathryn N. Gray and Amy M. E. Morris
Series:
Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas and the myths surrounding her down to the present day
This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of Matoaka/Pocahontas, especially on the creation and perpetuation of her cultural image in the seventeenth century and beyond—and on how new archival research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and contemporary creative practice challenge that image. The chronological scope of this collection, compiled in honor of the late Monacan poet and historian Karenne Wood, illustrates the ongoing legacies of colonialism as they relate to recurring representations of and by Native American women.
Contributors
Karen Kupperman, New York University * Helen Rountree, Old Dominion University * Karenne Wood, Virginia Humanities * Lucinda Rasmussen, University of Alberta * Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University * E. M. Rose, Oxford University * James Ring Adams, National Museum of the American Indian * Graziella Crezegut, independent scholar * Cristina L. Azocar, San Francisco State University * Ivana Markova, San Francisco State University * Stephanie Pratt, independent scholar * Sarah Sense, artist
This book moves us forward in important ways by bringing a diverse set of scholars and their respective perspectives to bear on this one woman’s life and her afterlives in imperial, settler, and Indigenous contexts. It is an important contribution and expands the conversation about Pocahontas and about Indigenous survivance more broadly.- Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia, author of Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire
Kathryn N. Gray is Associate Professor of English at the University of Plymouth and the author of John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay: Communities and Connections in Puritan New England. Amy M. E. Morris is Associate Professor of English at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the author of Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.
