Germany is wrestling with the legacy of author Karl May, whose fictional Native American hero, Winnetou, embodies the Germans' love affair with the Wild West. Another day, another online outrage over ...
March 30 marks 100 years since the death of German writer Karl May, whose popular novels about an American West (and other exotic locales) he only visited much later in life entertained many in ...
The film “Forget Winnetou!” uses the novels of Karl May, who published his first book about a character named Winnetou in 1870, to explore the German idealization of Indigenous peoples. “I make pretty ...
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache ...
The two Winnetou novels reissued by the Ravensburger publishing house created a controversy before being withdrawn from sale, which created a new controversy. CAPTURE D’ECRAN NDR Trying to extinguish ...
Revisiting Winnetou: The Karl May Museum, Cultural Appropriation, and Indigenous Self-Representation
Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL) is the only journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literatures broadly defined to include all written, spoken, and ...
Karl May, who died 100 years ago, was an impostor, a liar and a thief -- and one of Germany's most widely read authors. He embellished his own biography with as much fantasy as the scenarios in his ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Caprock Chronicles" is a yearlong series of short articles and essays that examine the life, people and historical places of our region's past. Paul Carlson, professor emeritus of ...
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