Fantasies of the master race literature, cinema, and the colonization of American Indians

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    Literature, cinema, and the colonization of American Indians

    Author: Churchill, Ward
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    "In this volume of incisive assays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural progaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native America."--BOOK JACKET. "Literature and art crafted by the dominant culture are an insidious political force, disinforming people who might otherwise develop a clearer understanding of indigenous struggles for jestice and freedom. This book is offered to counter that deception, and to move people to take action on issues confronting American Indians today."--BOOK JACKET.

    Contents:
    • Unraveling the Codes of Oppression: American Indians in Literature and Film
    • Literature and the Colonization of American Indians
    • It Did Happen Here: Sand Creek, Scholarship and the American Character
    • Carlos Castaneda: The Greatest Hoax Since Piltdown Man
    • Hi-Ho Hillerman ... (Away): The Role of Detective Fiction in Indian Country
    • A Little Matter of Genocide: Colonialism and the Expropriation of Indigenous Spiritual Tradition in Contemporary Academia
    • The New Racism: A Critique of James A. Clifton's The Invented Indian
    • Beyond Ethnicity? Werner Sollors' Deepest Avatar of Racism
    • In the Service of Empire: A Critical Assessment of Arnold Krupat's The Turn to the Native
    • "Interpreting" the American Indian? A Critique of Michael Castro's Apologia for Poetic Racism
    • Fantasies of the Master Race: The Stereotyping of American Indians in Film
    • And They Did it Like Dogs in the Dirt: An Indigenist Analysis of Black Robe
    • Lawrence of South Dakota.
    Original Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1998
    Language(s): English

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"In this volume of incisive assays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural progaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native America."--BOOK JACKET. "Literature and art crafted by the dominant culture are an insidious political force, disinforming people who might otherwise develop a clearer understanding of indigenous struggles for jestice and freedom. This book is offered to counter that deception, and to move people to take action on issues confronting American Indians today."--BOOK JACKET.

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San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1998

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0872863484

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