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

by James MacKay

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349449970
• ISBN13: 9781349449972
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"