Tribal Fantasies

Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010

J. Mackay, D. Stirrup, J. Mackay, D. Stirrup

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781349449972, 9781137288813
• eBook ISBN: 9781137318817
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Literature

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.

SUBJECT INDEX

9 Songs (film), 139

abduction, 200–207, 209n, 214–215

Aborigine (Australian), 64, 176

absence

of Native Americans, 1, 4–5, 9–10, 14, 22n, 24, 28, 91–93, 102, 106–108, 119, 122, 142, 145, 197–198, 208, 211, 215–216

of surplus, 90

Abu Ghraib, 28

adventure narrative, 38, 43–52, 86–88, 94–95, 156–169, 212–214

Aesthetics and Politics (Bloch), 86

Afrique Cordophones, 33

Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, 137

Aldred, Lisa, 17

Alexie, Sherman, 104, 197

Amazon, 145–146, 183–186

Amazonas (film), 145–146, 150

American Indian see Amerindian; First Nations; Index of nations, states, areas and cities; Indian; Native American and First Nations peoples; Native American imagery

American Indian literary nationalism, 4, 54, 73, 82n, 137, 158

American Indians in Children’s Literature (blog), 9, 101

Amerindian (indigenous peoples of both Americas), 7, 16–17, 124–125, 135n, 146–150, 173–191

see also First Nations; Index of nations, states, areas and cities; Indian; Native American and First Nations peoples; Native American imagery

anthropology, 43, 68–72, 90, 96, 105, 118–119, 127–128, 133n, 136n, 141, 145, 150

anthropophagi, 7, 149–150

anti-Americanism, 13

anti-Europeanism, 11–12

anti-modernity, Indian as representing, 2, 6, 11–12, 42, 54–55, 63, 74, 87, 89–90, 94–96, 188–191

anti-Semitism, 61–63, 86

see also J...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One   Union of Chance: Native Portrayals by Dogroy Beaulieu
• Two   Ethnographic Novels: American Indians in Francophone Comics
• Three   “I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous”: Indigenous Rights, British Nationalism, and the European Far Right
• Four   From Karl May to Karl Marx: Ernst Bloch and the Native American Tribe as Concrete Utopia
• Five   Teepees and Totem Poles: Toy Representations of North American Indians in European Popular Culture for Children
• Six   Native Americans, Europeans, and the Gay Imagination
• Seven   Monstrous Bodies and Ignoble Savages: Depictions of Indigenous Peoples in European Hardcore
• Eight   Polish Literary Depictions of Native Americans in Soviet-Era Adventure Novels
• Nine   Indian Spirit: Amerindians and the Techno-Tribes of Psytrance
• Ten   Wee People, Red Devils, and the Old Women Back Home: Representations of Native Americans in Micí Mac Gabhann’s Rotha Mór an tSaoil and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s “The Pale Gold of Alaska”
• Eleven   Afterword
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Nations, States, Areas and Cities
• Subject Index