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Publication details [#65216]

Gorsevski, Ellen W. 2018. Native America Persists: Pocahontas versus Trump. Journal of multicultural discourses 13 (2) : 160–175.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | multiculturalism | myth | polysemy | symbol

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper handles Pocahontas as a polysemic symbol of multiculturalism in the US, President Trump's iteration of Pocahontas as blot, and the remodeling of Indigenous people past and present within masculinized whiteness narratives that rule the US's actual political mood.