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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 82
... death is the primary experience of the Americas . As background for the manifold death and corruption described in Silko's novel , we will summarize a segment of the Popul Vuh that is directly engaged with death and its seemingly ...
... death , and the power of the Lords of Death is forever dimin- ished . The Hero Twin sequence is an extended meditation upon death both as prob- lem and as solution . This may seem to be a fairly unusual subject for treatment in Creation ...
... death " ( 120 ) . While the eastern direction is bright with unfolding life , the western direction embodies the opposite realities , old age and death : Not so with life . No matter how much we may wish it to linger , we cannot hold ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown