American Lavinia: The Pocahontas Narrative in Ante-Bellum America
Theses
Author/Creator
Robert Steven Tilton
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1992.
Discusses importance of three books: Cogewea the Half-Blood, Coyotes Stories, and Morning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.