Tribal fantasies
Subtitle: Native Americans in the European imaginary, 1900-2010
By: edited by James Mackay & David Stirrup
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781137288813
Subjects: Public opinion; Indians in art; Indians of North America; Indians in popular culture; Indians in literature
Description: This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right, contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on American Indian literary nationalism, postcolonialism, and transnational theories, essays demonstrate a complex nexus of power relations that seemingly allows European culture to build its own Native images, and ask what effect this has on the current treatment of indigenous peoples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.