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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... directions . The action moves forward when the chiefs of the four directions direct the people to build a fifth four - story house , this time in the center of the First World . A journey upward begins , as the people pass through each ...
... directions and to the abundance of life forces . The other directions and the corresponding colors have to do with processes of decline and death . Thus , the primordial struggle of the beaders , and indeed all living things , is ...
... directions on the use of her dead body to fertilize the fields that will now produce the corn . They are to drag her corpse over the field seven times , and each place that a drop of blood flows , there a corn plant will arise . Of ...
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Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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