Invisible natives
Subtitle: myth and identity in the American western
By: Armando José Prats.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Indians in motion pictures; Western films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction:; title: Representation and Absence in Northwest Passage; title: Part I. Strategies of Figuration; title: 1. "By All the Truth of Signs": The Indian in Synecdoche 23; title: 2. Prospects from the Spaces of the Same: The Indian, the Land, and the "Civilized Eye" 71; title: 3. "When the Apaches Speak": Revisionism's Discursive Dominance 125; title: Part II. Typology, Identity, and the Uses of Indianness; title: 4. "Chartered in Two Worlds": The Double Other 173; title: 5. "Not Enemies, Not Friends": Racio-Cultural; title: Ambivalence and Mythology's Ahistorical Imperatives 224.