Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Ientity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany Contributor(s): Usbeck, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782386548 ISBN-13: 9781782386544 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Modern - 19th Century - History | Europe - Germany |
Dewey: 305.897 |
LCCN: 2014033563 |
Series: Studies in German History |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 262 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around "Indianthusiasm." Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace. |
Contributor Bio(s): Usbeck, Frank: - Frank Usbeck is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technische Universität Dresden. He earned his Ph.D. at Leipzig University, and his thesis was awarded the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2011. He co-edited the collection Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres (2012) and has published a number of essays on Indian imagery in Germany and on ceremonial storytelling in American soldier weblogs. Usbeck is a member of the Dresden-Leipzig research initiative "Selbst-bewusste Erzählungen." |