Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes : Performing the Wild West in German Festivals Hardback
by A. Dana Weber
Part of the Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World series
Hardback
Description
Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day.
His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier settlers.
These Karl May festivals are hosted widely throughout German-speaking countries today. This book, based on years of fieldwork observing and studying the festivals, plays, events, and groups that comprise this subculture, addresses a larger, timely issue: cultural transfer and appropriations.
Are Germans dressing up in American Indian costumes paying tribute or offending the cultures they are representing?
Avoiding simplistic answers, A. Dana Weber considers the complexity of cultural enactments as they relate both to the distinctly German phenomenon as well as to larger questions of cultural representations in American and European live performance traditions.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages, 1 map, 24 black & white photos
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299323509
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages, 1 map, 24 black & white photos
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299323509
