Germans and Indians
Subtitle: fantasies, encounters, projections
By: edited by Colin G. Calloway, Gerd Gemünden, and Susanne Zantop.
Contributors: Calloway, Colin G. 1953-; Gmünden, Gerd.; Zantop, Susanne, 1945-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: German Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Public opinion -- History; Indians of North America; Exoticism in literature; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- Foreign public opinion, German
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Close encounters : Deutsche and Indianer -- Susanne Zantop; title: Compatriots -- Emma Lee Warrior; title: Germany's Indians in a European perspective -- Christian F. Feest; title: Historical encounters across five centuries -- Colin G. Calloway; title: American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England -- Corinna Dally-Starna ; -- William A. Starna -- "The; title: complexion of my country" : the German as "other" in colonial Pennsylvania -- Liam Riordan; title: German immigrants and intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest -- Russel Lawrence Barsh; title: A nineteenth-century Ojibwa conquers Germany -- Bernd Peyer; title: German Indianthusiasm : a social constructed German national(ist) myth -- Hartmut Lutz; title: Nineteenth-century German representations of Indians from experience -- Jeffrey L. Sammons; title: Indians playing, Indians praying : native Americans in Wild West shows and Catholic missions -- Karl Markus Kreis; title: Germans playing Indian -- Marta Carlson; title: Indian impersonation as historical surrogation -- Katrin Sieg; title: Between Karl May and Karl Marx : the DEFA Indianerfilme -- Gerd Gemünden; title: "Stranger and stranger" : the (German) other in Canadian indigenous texts -- Renate Eigenbrod; title: An introduction to Louise Erdrich's The antelope wife -- Ute Lischke-McNab; title: "Blitzkuchen" : an excerpt from The antelope wife-- Louise Erdrich.