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

MacKay, James and Stirrup, David F., eds. (2012) Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900-2010. Studies in European Culture and History . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-28881-3. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:40641)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Edited book
Additional information: Book co-edited by Stirrup and James Mackay, and contains a co-written chapter by Stirrup and Padraig Kirwan (70% Stirrup, 30% Kirwan): ‘“I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous”: Indigenous rights, British Nationalism, and the European Far Right’; number of additional authors: 1;
Subjects: P Language and Literature
P Language and Literature > PE English philology and language
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: David Stirrup
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40641 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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