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Book SynopsisFor over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society - missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, non-professional hobbyists and enthusiasts, and even royalty. This book discusses the long-standing connection between Germans and the Indians.
Trade Review"The book is rich in historical background and literary examples of the alleged German-Indian affinity and provides an excellent source for further study in this field."-Kerstin Knopf, American Studies -- Kerstin Knopf American Studies "The volume's contributions... offer expert as well as non-expert readers rewarding insights and information. Especially refreshing are the close-up studies of colonial German immigrants and their relationship to other settlers and to Native American groups."-Harry Liebersohn, American Historial Review -- Harry Liebersohn American Historical Review "Rarely does one encounter a book that is as difficult to evaluate in brief as it is fascinating to read... Since no comparable study of encounters between Germans and Indians exists, this book addresses a major void in the history of trans-Atlantic interaction... In addition to its ambitious scope, it also provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature. Because of its variegated array of academic vocabularies and methodologies, this book will command the attention of anyone interested in the contemporary resonance and history of the multifaceted encounters that have taken place between Germans and the indigenous peoples of North America since the seventeenth century."-Brian J. Boeck, H-Net Review -- Brian J. Boeck H-New Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Editors' Acknowledgments Part 1: Introduction Close Encounters: Deutsche and Indianer - Susanne Zantop Compatriots - Emma Lee Warrior Germany's Indians in a European Perspective - Christian F. Feest Part 2: Historical Encounters Historical Encounters across Five Centuries - Colin G. Calloway American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England - Corinna Dally-Starna and William A. Starna "The Complexion of My Country": The German as "Other" in Colonial Pennsylvania - Liam Riordan German Immigrants and Intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest - Russel Lawrence Barsh A Nineteenth-Century Ojibwa Conquers Germany - Bernd Peyer Part 3: Projections and Performances German Indianthusiasm: A Socially Constructed German National(ist) Myth - Hartmut Lutz Nineteenth-Century German Representations of Indians from Experience - Jeffrey L. Sammons Indians Playing, Indians Praying: Native Americans in Wild West Shows and Catholic Missions - Karl Markus Kreis Germans Playing Indian - Marta Carlson Indian Impersonation as Historical Surrogation - Katrin Sieg Between Karl May and Karl Marx: The defa Indianerfilme - Gerd Gemunden Part 4: Two-Souled Warriors: The Conjunction of Germans and Indians Revisited "Stranger and Stranger": The (German) Other in Canadian Indigenous Texts - Renate Eigenbrod An Introduction to Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife - Ute Lischke-McNab "Blitzkuchen," An Excerpt from The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
