O mito Pocahontas na Disney Renaissance: das narrativas de um mito fundador aos dilemas identitários dos Estados Unidos na década de 1990.

Abstract

The film Pocahontas (1995) is an important interpretive key to understanding the American society of the 1990s, and the way Pocahontas was represented by Disney Studios. The film’s plot brings up important elements, consistent with issues of the United States in the 1990s, such as the man's relationship with nature and how Native Americans related to it, rescuing one of the founding myths of the United States. We followed the trajectory of the Pocahontas myth, to get to know its historicity and the way in which this myth was understood over time until its resignification by the Disney narrative in the 1990s. We seek to understand the history that makes the film and the story that the film tells. We deal with the film both as a historical fact and as a way of understanding the story told in its narrative. We seek to understand the construction of the Pocahontas myth and its representation in the film, having an image built over the centuries (always relating to a diplomatic and pacifying trait of the character), transformed into a strong, transformative mediating and environmentalist female protagonist. The film is a project of both white people and Native Americans within a cultural war of dispute for narratives, two parallel projects within and around the work, building a narrative of the past from a selection of other narratives that will compose that result.