Description
Book SynopsisIn
Settler Aesthetics, Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film
The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.
Trade Review“
Settler Aesthetics is an energetic book that engages critical Indigenous and settler-colonial concepts through a case study of
The New World as set in historical, gendered, and political (tribal, federal, state) contexts. Mishuana Goeman assembles a persuasive critique of the film and a justified defense of Indigenous peoples, homelands, and cultures in Virginia.”—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of
Cinematic Comanches: “The Lone Ranger” in the Media BorderlandsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Spectacle of Originary Moments
1. The Consumption of Mythic Romance and Innocence
2. Settler Aesthetics and the Making of Cinematic Geographies
3. Filmic Apologies and Indigenous Labor
4. The “New World” of Race, U.S. Law, and the Politics of Recognition
Conclusion: Undoing the Spectacle
Notes
Bibliography
Index
