The Correlation Between Societal Attitudes and Those of American Fictional Authors in the Depiction of American Indians

This research examines the relationship between the attitudes of fictional writers and those of society toward American Indians from colonial America to the present. A content analysis was used to validate the hypothesis. In order to show changing attitudes and different schools of thought, this research was arranged into four time periods: "The Ethnocentric Conquerors," "The Ethnocentric Romantics," "The Ethnocentric Acculturationists," and "The Revisionists." The findings demonstrate that there is a close correlation between the attitudes of fictional authors and those of society during a given time period,

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663353
Date05 1900
CreatorsTurnbull, Wynette Lois H.
ContributorsBenson, Leonard G., Tanner, James T. F.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 87 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Turnbull, Wynette Lois H., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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