Aliens and Indians
Science Fiction, Prophetic Photography and Near-Future Visions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157997 |
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| Authors | Curtis Marez (University Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336-352 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412904048566 |
| OpenAlex | W2045475708 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Building upon the insights of Indian media-makers and critics, this article considers the ways in which science fiction about alien abduction incorporates and transforms histories of Indian slavery. Specifically, it historicizes science fiction in relationship to Indian slavery to explore its implications for contemporary demographic, political and cultural transformations. Narratives of encounter and conquest in Hollywood films such as Contact (1997) and Men in Black (1997) are considered in tandem with Indian media-makers and critics such as Ward Churchill, Jimmie Durham, Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, Victor Masayesva, Leslie Marmon Silko and Beverly Singer, who stress the long-term historical continuities among dominant images of Indians, at different times and places and in diverse forms, more or less from Columbus to the present
Alien · Ancient history · Art · Art history · CONQUEST · Hollywood · Literature · Narrative · Photography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Highly cited | No |
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