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- Title
Searching for Sacajawea: Whitened reproductions and endarkened representations.
- Authors
Pillow, Wanda
- Abstract
Pillow's aim is to demonstrate how representations of Sacajawea have shifted in writings about the Lewis and Clark expedition in ways that support manifest destiny and white colonial projects. This essay begins with a general account of Sacajawea. The next section uses two novels (one hundred years apart) to make the case that shifts in the representation of this important historical figure serve similar purposes. There is some attention to white suffragist representations, but the central contrast is between manifest destiny and multiculturalism. The final section addresses the important question of whether it is possible for feminists to theorize Sacajawea in ways that are not co-opted by colonial projects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SACAGAWEA, ca. 1788-1812; POLITICAL messianism; HISTORICAL revisionism; WOMEN'S history; HISTORICAL errors; FEMINISTS
- Publication
Hypatia, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0887-5367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/HYP.2007.22.2.1