Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular FictionThis study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches for evaluating the literature. They argue that while popular fiction conventions determine and limit authentic portraits of Native American cultures, successful popular fiction writers approach literary quality by fusing authentic Native American culture with the standard genre conventions. Approximately 200 books are discussed and evaluated, and true Native American stories and writings are contrasted with mainstream versions of Indian culture. |
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... alien encounters ( Contact , E.T. , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Alien Na- tion , Enemy Mine , Brother from Another Planet , and their cinematic brethren ) and alien abduction stories from Cocoon to The X - Files ? The ...
... alien , and when microscopic alien bacteria eat up all concrete and metal struc- tures , America perforce returns to its pre - Columbian state of nature . Ian Watson's The Martian Inca ( 1978 ) warns against pride . In this story , an ...
... alien grasslands of an enslaved planet fulfilling reminders of eighteenth- and nineteenth - century Earth . Whitehawk is an Amerindian of the Northwest Terran Confederation and one of a group of Terran trade representatives to the ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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