John Smith's History of Virginia: English Settlements in the New World's Beginnings, Apuntes de Literatura Americana

¡Descarga John Smith's History of Virginia: English Settlements in the New World's Beginnings y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura Americana solo en Docsity! FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN THE NEW WORLD JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) From the General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles - The General History of Virginia was written by John Smith. - It could be classified in the narrative genre. - The aim of this text is to concern the history of North America. - Third person objective vision of events fiction / hero - Function relationship indians / colonists - It shows the beginnings of the colonial period in United States. - The struggles that the English colonies had to face to arrive to America among them. - The division between the british, the aborigines and the westerns. - The chronicles of a mercenary soldier. - First book written in North American lands with topic of New World lands with topic of New World as space with new identity for personal and national history. - The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624). - Pocahontas first appearance. - Debtor of tradition of exploration by Hakluyt and Purchas. - Sources of romance and medieval literature. - More chivalrous hero than explorer without scruples. - A True Relation… (1624) book of travels. - Legitimizes English colonies. - Romances of conqueror and native woman as inventing resource. - Legend of Pocahontas reality. - First American legend (not loving adventure). - Contrast with Malinche in Mexico The indian woman who has married with Hernán Cortés the conqueror. - 19th century established as representation of noble savage (Chateaubriand). - Remodeled episode, but impossible relationship to avoid miscegenation. Provided South of a noble origin and alternative history (progenitor if aristocratic class). - From second half of 19th century, Pocahontas becomes a part of the North American collective unconscious. Walt Disney film adaption immortalizes impossible romance.