Christmas Dreams by Susan Pfeffer
In Imagining Indians in the Southwest, Leah Dilworth examines the creation and enduring potency of the early twentieth-century myth of the primitive Indian. She demonstrates how visions of Indians -- created by tour companies, anthropologists, collectors of Indian crafts, and modernist writers -- have reflected white anxieties about complex racial and cultural issues. Dilworth explores diverse expressions of mainstream society's primitivist impulse -- from the Fred Harvey Company's guided tours of Indian pueblos supposedly untouched by modern life to ethnographic descriptions of the Hopi Snake dance as alien and exotic. She reveals how magazines touted the preindustrial simplicity of Indian artisanal occupations and how Mary Austin's 1923 book, The American Rhythm, urged poets to emulate the cadences of Native American song and dance. Contending that Native Americans of the Southwest still are seen primarily as living relics, Dilworth describes the ways in which they have resisted cultural colonialism. She concludes with a consideration of two contemporary artists who, by infusing their works with history and complexity, are recasting the practices and politics of primitivism.
Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults. Her bestselling book The Year Without Michael received a starred review from School Library Journal. It was also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Editors' Choice, and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Pfeffer is also the author of the popular Portraits of Little Women series as well as Kid Power, which won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the Sequoyah Book Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385326230 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385326238 |
| Title | Christmas Dreams |
| Author | Susan Pfeffer |
| Series | Portraits Of Little Women |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Year published | 1998-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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