{"product_id":"from-daniel-boone-to-captain-america-playing-indian-in-american-popular-culture-paperback","title":"From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChad A. Barbour\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in \u003ci\u003eFrom Daniel Boone to Captain America\u003c\/i\u003e the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American art and literature developed images of the Indian and the frontiersman that exemplified ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood, as well as embodying fears of betrayal, loss of civilization, and weakness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the twentieth century, comic books, among other popular forms of media, would inherit these images. The Western genre of comic books participated fully in the common conventions, replicating and perpetuating the myths and ideals long associated with the frontier in the United States. A fascination with Native Americans also emerged in comic books devoted to depicting the Indian past of the US In such stories, the Indian remains a figure of the past, romanticized as a lost segment of US history, ignoring contemporary and actual Native peoples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlaying Indian occupies a definite subgenre of Western comics, especially during the postwar period when a host of comics featuring a \"white Indian\" as the hero were being published. Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a phenomenon that heightens and amplifies the notions of heroism, bravery, and manhood already attached to the white Indian trope. Instances of superheroes like Batman and Superman playing Indian correspond with depictions found in the strictly Western comics. The superhero as Indian returned in the twenty-first century via Captain America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal and image.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChad A. Barbour\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at Lake Superior State University. His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Comic Art \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773398417696,"sku":"9781496820167","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ff864d60a1521e2c00dbb3bef52586ba_9848bc3c-ee45-4c9d-ac9e-129de46c9d76.webp?v=1780426181","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/from-daniel-boone-to-captain-america-playing-indian-in-american-popular-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}