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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... understanding of the unity of time and space is based upon a prior understanding of the unity of time itself and of space itself . The journey to insight within contemporary Native American literature begins , first , with a decoding of ...
... understanding , and to make peace ( at least in literature ) . Jane Barry's 1929 A Time in the Sun was reissued in 1962 because it questioned white values and sympathized with the Apache struggle to avoid confinement on reservations ...
... understanding and genuine affection between very different peoples . Drawing on her own experiences participating in the 1990 Sioux Big Foot Memorial Ride on horseback across 250 miles of frozen Dakota prairie , in sym- bolic ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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