Indianthusiasm

Indigenous Responses
Herausgeber: Lutz, Hartmut; Watchman, Renae; Strzelczyk, Florentine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Containing interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists, and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples, Indianthusiasm is the first collection to present Indigenous critiques and assessments of this phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Indigenous Studies
• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123990
• ISBN-10: 1771123990
• Artikelnr.: 53483389

Autorenporträt

Hartmut Lutz taught North American Studies in Germany, specializing in Indigenous literatures. He won awards and professorships in North America and Europe. His publications include Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors (1991), The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab (2005) and Contemporary Achievements (2015).Florentine Strzelczyk serves as Deputy Provost of the University of Calgary. She holds a PhD from UBC (1996). Her work has appeared in journals such as Modernism/Modernity; German Quarterly; German Studies Review; Seminar; and Quarterly Review for Film & Video.Renae Watchman (Navajo) is originally from Shiprock, NM. She is an associate professor of English, cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She is also a co-director of Academic Indigenization.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
The Editors Foreword
The Editors Introduction
Ahmoo Angeconeb: "I thought to myself: 'Well, I'll appropriate from the
people who appropriated from us.'"
Jeannette Armstrong: "Most people can't be informed because of the way they
are being informed."
John Blackbird: "Germany is my other Heimat now" and "Groan" (poem)
Warren Cariou: "The focus on remembering- ... a sort of super-ego kind of
thing."
Jo-Ann Episkenew: "When the gaze turns in both directions."
Audrey Huntley: "I actually never wanted to like Germany."
Thomas King: "The thorn is in my side when I'm talking to Europeans, who
begin lecturing me on Indianness."
David T. McNabb: "You can deal with stereotypes! At least you are dealing
with some knowledge."
Quentin Pipestem: "It's been my job to not only entertain them through my
dancing and singing, but also to educate them in the actual original
traditional stories."
Waubgeshig Rice: "I was definitely an ambassador, and, sort of a mythbuster
in many ways."
Drew Hayden Taylor: "You can't underestimate the influence of Karl May's
Winnetou."
Emma Lee Warrior: "They want redemption somehow."