Studies in European Culture and History: Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010

Mackay, J.; Stirrup, D.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-12-28

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349449972

DOI: 10.1057/9781137318817

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 265