Germany's "Indianer": Myth, Fantasy, and Indigenous Reappropriations

Nicole Perry

Nicole Perry is a Lecturer in German at the University of Auckland. She completed her PhD inGermanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto (2012) with a dissertation on the German image of Native Americans from 1800-present. Her current project reverses the gaze and examines how Indigenous artists from North America reclaim and reappropriate the German Indianer image in a postcolonial context.

The talk will be held in English.