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Book SynopsisEurope''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 (18421912) and his literary fabrications of the ''vanishing race,'' which were utilized by National Socialist propaganda, as well as the Englishman Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888-1938) reinventing himself as Grey Owl, or contemporary Europeans, ''cloning'' surrogate Indian identities and ''patenting'' synthetic
Trade ReviewEurope's Indians, Indians in Europe is marked by a valuable comparative approach that breaks from prevailing studies on particular European nations. * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Chapter 2 Europe Writing the Indian Land of Enchantment: Charles Sealsfield a.k.a. Karl Postl and Karl May Chapter 3 Indianness Touring Europe: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Chapter 4 Dressing in Feathers Transatlantically: Grey Owl and Neo-Primitivism Chapter 5 Playing Indian, Inc.: Para-Estoericism, Ethnic Patents, Culture Clones, and Cybertribes Chapter 6 Postscript Part 7 Index Part 8 About the Author
