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Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe
Dagmar Wernitznig
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Description for Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe
paperback. Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism. Topics range from so-called Pocahontas, paraded as an exotic souvenir princess in front of seventeenth-century Londoners, to Native Americans touring Europe as show token Indians with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in the late nineteenth-century. European strategies of playing Indian include German dime novel artisan Karl May (1842–1912) and his literary fabrications of the 'vanishing ... Read more
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism. Topics range from so-called Pocahontas, paraded as an exotic souvenir princess in front of seventeenth-century Londoners, to Native Americans touring Europe as show token Indians with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in the late nineteenth-century. European strategies of playing Indian include German dime novel artisan Karl May (1842–1912) and his literary fabrications of the 'vanishing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761836896
SKU
V9780761836896
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About Dagmar Wernitznig
Dr. Dagmar Wernitznig is an Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and a Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Reviews for Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is marked by a valuable comparative approach that breaks from prevailing studies on particular European nations.
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