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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... poetry and fiction . Her latest work , The Antelope Wife continues the themes explored by Thomas King and Leslie Silko . On the first page of her novel , Erdrich refers to a Creation story sequence , just as do the two previous authors ...
... poetry " ( 125 ) . This modern concept of cross - cultural love in defiance of time and place , tradition and community , has been the subject of hundreds of recent Indian - romance fantasies . REALITY SUSPENDED : WHAT ROMANCES IGNORE ...
... Poetry . Garden City , N.Y .: Doubleday / Anchor , 1956 . Mitchel , Lee Clark . Westerns : Making the Man in Fiction and Film . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . Modleski , Tania . Loving with a Vengeance : Mass 332 ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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