- Summary
- How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for two centuries. This affinity stems directly from German polycentrism, notions of tribalism, a devotion to resistance, a longing for freedom, and a melancholy sense of shared fate. Penny explores nineteenth century German settler colonialism in the American Midwest, the rise and fall of German America, and the transnational worlds of American Indian performers. As he traces this phenomenon through the twentieth century, Penny engages debates about race, masculinity, comparative genocides, and American Indians' reactions to Germans' interests in them. He also assesses what persists of the affinity across the political ruptures of modern German history and challenges readers to rethink how cultural history is made.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Penny, H. Glenn.
- Published
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
©2013
- Locale
- Germany
Tyskland
Deutschland
Mittlerer Westen
- Contents
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Introduction: Beyond the buckskin
From Cooper to Karl May: Recast
Accommodating violence
Changes in the lands
Modern Germans and Indians
Instrumentalization across political regimes
Race, character, and masculinity before and after Hitler
Comparative genocides
Receptions in Native America
Conclusion: What persists.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-363) and index.
Introduction: Beyond the buckskin -- From Cooper to Karl May: Recast -- Accommodating violence -- Changes in the lands -- Modern Germans and Indians -- Instrumentalization across political regimes -- Race, character, and masculinity before and after Hitler -- Comparative genocides -- Receptions in Native America -- Conclusion: What persists.
