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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... final movement upward is attempted . This time , replacing the pillars of light as the means of travel , the animal guardians dig a sky hole for emergence into the next world . Both water and monsters block the hole through which ...
... Final markers for this First World are given when it is assigned a direction ( the west ) ; a color ( yellow ) ; a mineral ( gold ) ; a four - leafed plant ; and animal guardians . A similar pattern of marking is given for each of the ...
... final conflicts with the Comanches , with an interest in the changes wrought by new technologies on the Comanche way of fighting and living , and the contrast between the old way and the new way . A defiant Buffalo Hump and his son Blue ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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