Name: Indianthusiasm
ISBN: 9781771123990

Hartmut Lutz

Renae Watchman

Florentine Strelczyk

Indianthusiasm brings together interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples.

Indigenous Responses

Indianthusiasm

Patrick Book

This is extremely niche, but it’s a very interesting look at a cultural obsession I never would have known about otherwise. It is fascinating to see how the Indigenous subjects interviewed here have learned about and processed this German weirdness and their experiences when visiting a culture that fetishizes their assumptions about Indigeneity. It’s also revealing that even in what seems to be a fairly welcoming place racism still rears it’s ugly head. If anyone somehow needs a reminder that systemic racism is literally inescapable, here it is I guess!

Indianthusiasm Indigenous Responses