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Native Americans and speculative fiction : what popular literature tells us about stereotyping and cultural biases
Native Americans and speculative fiction : what popular literature tells us about stereotyping and cultural biases

Author(s): Weronika Łaszkiewicz, Tereza Dědinová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: interview; Weronika Łaszkiewic;

Summary/Abstract: Dr. Weronika Łaszkiewicz is assistant professor at the University of Białystok (Poland). She has written a number of articles on different aspects of Euro- American fantasy fiction. She is the author of Fantasy Literature and Christianity (2018) and Exploring Fantasy Literature (2019). Together with Tereza Dědinová, PhD and Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, PhD she has recently coedited Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction (2021). If you are interested in learning more about her work, visit https://uwb.academia. edu/Weronika%C5%81aszkiewicz . Weronika spent the spring of this year on a research fellowship at the Department of Czech Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, where she focused on her latest project: exploring the stereotyping of Native Americans in speculative fiction. With several chapters still to go before the completion of her planned book, Weronika shares some of her findings in the following interview.

  • Issue Year: 25/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-135
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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