1st Edition
The Amazonian “Other” Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Cultural Texts
By Aleksandra Wierucka
Copyright 2025
118 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
118 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
118 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts. It analyzes a variety of mediums from novels and films to games and exhibitions, uncovering a distorted image of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Euro-American common imagination. The author suggests that these texts rely on a stereotypical vision that was shaped in the first decades of... Read more
Introduction
2 Stereotype and exoticization
3 Shaping the image of Amazonian Indigenous people
4 Tropical forest as a living environment
5 Conclusions
Biography
Aleksandra Wierucka is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Gdańsk, Poland.
