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- Title
Self- and Counter-Representations of Native Americans: Stereotypical Images of and New Images by Native Americans in Popular Media.
- Authors
Kedong Lliu; Hui Zhang
- Abstract
Historically speaking, American mainstream media have distorted Native American images, which has misled the formation of young Native Americans' identity. The emerging Native American writer and film maker Sherman Alexie has countered the distortion by uttering his own voice and presenting his own image of the new American Indians. Alexie has replaced the reticent, subservient, disappearing "Noble Savage" with the expressive, free, and surviving new Indians. Alexie depicts successful and resilient American Indian characters and plots in films, novels (sometimes with cartoon illustrations). He has also disintegrated the stereotypical mascot and ushered in a new Indian image. Racial genocide, assimilation, and oppression are substituted by syncretism.
- Subjects
SOCIAL conditions of Native Americans; NATIVE American mass media; ALEXIE, Sherman, 1966-; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas in motion pictures; GROUP identity
- Publication
Intercultural Communication Studies, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 2, p105
- ISSN
1057-7769
- Publication type
Article