Kenny, Maurice - Robert L. Berner (review date Summer 1993)
Robert L. Berner (review date Summer 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant (1735–1795): Poems of War, in World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 649-50.
[In the following review, Berner offers praise for Tekonwatonti, but questions Kenny's claims of historical accuracy.]
Molly Brant was the sister of the great Mohawk chief Joseph Brant and the wife of Sir William Johnson, who during the French and Indian War convinced the Mohawks that their best hope for political survival was to side with the English. Molly herself led the Mohawks on behalf of the English during the American Revolution and after the defeat lived out the rest of her life in Canada.
Tekonwatonti is an account of the life of this extraordinary woman, told in a series of monologues by Molly, Sir William, and others. Maurice Kenny intends it as an act of homage to American Indian women, who generally have been...
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