„Posągi dawnych mieszkańców” i imperium rozrywki
“Statues of ancient inhabitants” and the empire of entertainment

The ambivalence of the image of Indigenous Americans in Tomek na wojennej ścieżce [“Tom on the Warpath”]

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the analysis of themes related to Indigenous Americans in the best-selling novel by Alfred Szklarski. The image of Native Americans presented in it is ambivalent. On the one hand, Szklarski, replicating epic tropes, refers to the theme of “vanishing Indians” from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and expresses regret for the lost past. On the other hand, he situates them in the context of Wild West shows and “ethnographic exhibitions”, which, during the time depicted in his book, expressed the triumph of Western knowledge and strength over “wildness”.

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