A Study of Colonial Surrogates and Indigenous Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14810796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Willard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 70 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wicazo Sa Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-6427 • E-ISSN: 1533-7901 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1409187 |
| OpenAlex | W2004397639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This is a brief study of the life of the American physician Dr. Carlos Montezuma. The record of the Doctor's personal history has a striking resemblance to Franz Kafka's fragment of fantasy A Report to an Academy. The Kafka Report began You have done me the honor of inviting me to give your Academy an account of the life I formerly led as an ape (Kafka:250) and then went on as the personal history of the former ape writing a report to the academicians on how and why he set about to become a European human. Both Montezuma's history and Kafka's fragment of fiction are essentially the same as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan story. Peter and Tarzan who became European humans, began as apes living in West Africa. Language was the way through which they became Europeans, for Peter, German, and for Tarzan, French then English. There was one simple difference, Peter had been born an ape, captured by European animal collectors, Tarzan was the human child of English parents, an orphan captured by West African apes. The Yavapai boy who became Carlos Montezuma, had a similar history. Dr. Montezuma's recorded history began just before sunrise one day in 1870 when
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Fantasy · Genealogy · German · Honor · Indigenous · Literature · World War II · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Classics · History
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |