Native American representations first encounters, distorted images, and literary appropriations / edited by Gretchen M. Bataille.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bataille, Gretchen M., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in popular culture.

Indians of North America--Attitudes.

Indians of North America.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Indians in literature.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Indians of North America--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 265 p. ) group port. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Columbus's journal jottings about "Indios" to the image of Sacagawea on the dollar coin, from the marauding Indians portrayed in the traditional western to the appearance of Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, from cigar box caricatures to the Crazy Horse monument rising near Mt. Rushmore, Native Americans have been represented-and misrepresented-over the past five centuries. What such depictions mean-what they say, and what they do, historically, culturally, and ideologically-is the subject of this book. In Native American Representations, leading national and international critics of Native literature and culture examine images in a wide range of media from a variety of perspectives to show how depictions and distortions have reflected and shaped cross-cultural exchanges from the arrival of Europeans to today. Focusing on issues of translation, European and American perceptions of land and landscape, teaching approaches, and transatlantic encounters, the authors explore problems of appropriation and advocacy, of cultural sovereignty and respect for the "authentic" text. Most significantly, they ask the reader to consider the question: "Who controls the representation?" Illuminating and timely, the animated debates and insightful analyses in this book not only showcase some of the most provocative work being done in the field of Native Studies today, but they also set an agenda for its development in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

As if an Indian were really an Indian : Native American voices and postcolonial theory / Louis Owens

The Indians America loves to love and read : American Indian identity and cultural appropriation / Kathryn Shanley

Return of the buffalo : cultural representation as cultural property / David L. Moore

Representation and cultural sovereignty : some case studies / David Murray

Tricksters of the trade : "remagining" the filmic image of Native Americans / John Purdy

Telling stories for readers : the interplay of orality and literacy in Clara Pearson's Nahalem Tillamook tales / Jarold Ramsey

Cooperation and resistance : Native American collaborative personal narrative / Kathleen M. Sands.

Western literary methods and their Native American revisiting : the hybrid aesthetics of Owens's The sharpest sight / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

Identity and exchange : the representation of "the Indian" in the federal writers project and in contemporary Native American literature / Hartwig Isernhagen

Reversing the gaze : early Native American images of Europeans and Euro-Americans / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff

Metacritical frames of reference in studying American Indian literature / Kathryn Shanley.

Notes:

Based on a conference held in France in June 1997 and a follow-up conference held at Cornell University in the spring of 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610423521

9781280423529

1280423528

9780803200036

080320003X

OCLC:

50649520