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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... rituals and how ritual depends upon the same circular pat- tern . In the Lakota tradition , the circle , quartered and centered , is the organizing structure for the most sacred ritual forms . Thus , the Sun Dance , the vision quest ...
... ritual experience , as Wallace Black Elk ( b . 1921 ) confirms . Wal- lace Black Elk is a Lakota shaman who received his early training from eleven spiritual " grandfathers , " one of whom was Nicholas Black Elk . In his book , Sacred ...
... ritual ( with sandpaintings ) for starting a new world after a cataclysm in Listening Woman ( 1978 ) , a burial ritual and Ghost Way ceremony to protect from the evil spirits of the dead in The Ghost Way ( 1984 ) , and a Pueblo / Hopi ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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