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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... culture has declined , the Indian figure is in yet another of its periods of widespread popularity among the general public . Curiosity about Native Amer- icans and studies programs themselves have swung in and out of favor , but the ...
... culture : the op- posed influences of a parent culture and its rebellious progeny , of Enlightenment rationalism and Romanticism's counterpoint , of sentimental visions of society and the brutalities of realpolitik and genocide . In all ...
... culture and joined Indian groups or lived exactly like them . Even traditional Native American culture itself changed rapidly and irreversibly from the earliest trade contacts with Champlain and the French , as the metal tomahawk head ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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