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(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture
Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old. This book charts these changes by analyzing representations of old age in American Indian literature.
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(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture
Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old. This book charts these changes by analyzing representations of old age in American Indian literature.
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(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture

(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture

by Philipp Kneis
(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture

(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture

by Philipp Kneis

Overview

Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old. This book charts these changes by analyzing representations of old age in American Indian literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631638538
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 06/05/2013
Pages: 298
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Philipp Kneis received his M.A. in American Studies and History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; and his PhD from Potsdam University. Previous publications include The Emancipation of the Soul. Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television (Peter Lang, 2010), and two volumes co-edited with Antje Dallmann and Reinhard Isensee, namely Envisioning American Utopias. Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture (Peter Lang, 2011) and Picturing America. Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture (Peter Lang, 2007). An overview of further publications can be found on pjkx.com. He currently works at Oregon State University.

Table of Contents

Contents: Cultural Imagining of Old Age – Indian Identity and Tribal Elders – Traditional Oral Narratives – Traditional Stories in Transformation – Trickster Permutations: Saged Heroes and Resilient Elders – Aging Relations: Place and Belonging – Old Age as Loss: Cultural vs. Individual Memory – Haunted by Tradition.
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