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

Summary: "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." "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.

Record details

ISBN: 0872863484
ISBN: 9780872863484
Physical Description: xix, 261 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.