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

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...

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Literature, cinema, and the colonization of American Indians

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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Original version: San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1998. 261 pages 0872863484
System requirements: PC or compatible, or Macintosh ; MP3 reader
UBC Crane Library
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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

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