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- Title
Mapping the Gift Path: Exchange and Rivalry in John Smith's A True Relation.
- Authors
Boelhower, William
- Abstract
Discusses John Smith's interest in narrative, territory and the cultural capital of kindness in his "A True Relation," an autobiographical letter. Essential skills that had made Smith a figure in the first year or so in the Jamestown, Virginia, colony in the 17th century; Site-specific narrative that enables readers to embed Smith's self-fashioning in a spatial and chronological structure.
- Subjects
JAMESTOWN (Va.); VIRGINIA; WEROWOCOMOCO Site (Va.); UNITED States; SMITH, John, 1580-1631; LETTERS; MAPS; COLONISTS; HISTORY
- Publication
American Literary History, 2003, Vol 15, Issue 4, p655
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ALH/AJG046