Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums

ISBN-13: 9781611320893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 227 str.

Norman K. Denzin

Opis

Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience. He then calls for a rewriting of the history of the American west, one devoid of minstrelsy and racist pageantry, and honouring the contemporary cultural and artistic visions of people whose ancestors were shattered by American expansionism.

Spis treści

Introduction; chapterOne Selling Indians: Traveling wild West Shows, Painters, Minstrels, and Museums; chapterTwo Charles Bird King’s Studio Indians; chapterThree The Traveling Indian Medicine Show; chapterFour; chapterFive; chapterSix Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; chapterSeven Ghost Dancers in Germany; chapterEight;

O autorze

Denzin, Norman K