A MELUS Interview: Paula Gunn Allen

MELUS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Franchot Ballinger ◽  
Brian Swann ◽  
Paul Gunn Allen
Keyword(s):  
Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Doris Seale ◽  
Elizabeth I. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Paula Gunn Allen

Pocahontas' Voice: A Conversation with Paula Gunn Allen

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Joanne M. Braxton ◽  
Paula Gunn Allen
Keyword(s):  
Paula Gunn Allen

A Tribute to Paula Gunn Allen (1939–2008)

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
Annette Van Dyke
Keyword(s):  
Paula Gunn Allen

scholarly journals The decolonial perspective on America’s founding mother myth: a study of Paula Gunn Allen’s Pocahontas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Juliana Pimenta Attie
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Native People ◽  
Western History ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Native Woman ◽  
Paula Gunn Allen ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
The Creation

Western History and Literature have been perpetuating the image of women who have played an important role in the creation of the nation. According to those narratives, they emerge as figures that have helped European men to understand, connect and be part of native culture.Most importantly, they abandoned their own culture in order to build a more “civilized” nation in alliance with the Europeans and therefore they are seen as traitors. However, more recent studies tell us different stories about those women, stories that reveal that, in fact, these women were subjugated and/or discredited. From this perspective, this article aims at reflecting upon the oppressive patriarchal colonial forces that build the narrative of native people as the other. In that intent, we will analyze the poem “Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe,” as well as the biography of Pocahontas, both written by Paula Gunn Allen, a native American writer, who gives voice to the silenced native woman and the tradition of her people.

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