Tribal Fantasies Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900-2010

by MacKay, James; Stirrup, David

• ISBN13: 9781137288813
• ISBN10: 1137288817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-08
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This transnational and comparative collection of interdisciplinary essays discusses the continuing adoption and appropriation of Native American culture, imagery, and spirituality in European culture. Contributors argue that the last hundred years have seen the way Europe imagines Natives shifting from exoticism to outright fantasy, mirroring the changing European perception of America itself.

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Table of Contents

Introduction – David Stirrup and James Mackay
1. Union of Chance: Portrayals by Dogroy Beaulieu – Gerald Vizenor


2. Ethno-Graphic Novels: Francophone Comics and Derib's Plains Indian Cycle – Sebastian F. Braun

3. I'm indiginous, I'm indiginous, I'm indiginous': Indigenous Rights, British Nationalism, and the European Far Right – Padraig Kirwan & David Stirrup

4. From Karl Marx to Karl May: Ernst Bloch and the Native American as Concrete Utopia – Peter Thompson

5. Teepees & Totem Poles: Imaginings of Native Americans in European Popular Culture for Children – Christina Welch

6. Native Americans and the European Gay Imagination – Max Carocci

7. Monstrous Bodies and Ignoble Savages: Depictions of Indigenous Peoples in European Hardcore – James Mackayi
8. Polish Literary Depictions of Native Americans in Soviet-Era Adventure Novels – Marek Paryz


9. Indian Spirit: Psytrance Culture, Native Americans and the Techno-Tribes – Graham St John

10. Wee People, Red Devils and the Old Women Back Home: Representations of Native Americans in Micí Mac Gabhann's Rotha Mór an tSaoil and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's "The Pale Gold of Alaska" – Jessica Dougherty-McMichael
Afterword – Renae Watchman