Posągi dawnych mieszkańców” i imperium rozrywki. Ambiwalencja obrazu Indian w "Tomku na wojennej ścieżce"

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ID21374366
AuthorsWacław Forajter (0000-0001-7527-934X, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, corresponding author)
Year2023
Issue66/2
Pages89-102
Publication date2023-01-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePrzegląd Humanistyczny (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2194 • E-ISSN: 2657-599X
PublisherUniversity of Warsaw (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.31338/2657-599x.ph.2022-2.7
OpenAlexW4317502666
LanguagePL
References cited14

The text focuses on the analysis of themes related to Indigenous Americans in the best-selling novel by Alfred Szklarski. The image of Native Americans presented in it is ambivalent. On the one hand, Szklarski, replicating epic tropes, refers to the theme of “vanishing Indians” from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and expresses regret for the lost past. On the other hand, he situates them in the context of Wild West shows and “ethnographic exhibitions”, which, during the time depicted in his book, expressed the triumph of Western knowledge and strength over “wildness”

Ambivalence · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · EPIC · Ethnography · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Regret · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Wildness · Anthropology · Central European Literary Studies · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · History · Language and Culture · Law · Psychology

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