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@proceedings{1374005,
author = {Kačer, Tomáš},
booktitle = {Fictionality as Concept and Literary Practice, 24. 2. 2017, University of Stockholm, Sweden},
keywords = {Fictionality; Authenticity; Native Americans; Wild West},
language = {eng},
title = {An Authentic Exhibition : Authentic and Fictional Native American Representations in the Wild West},
year = {2017}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1374005
AU - Kačer, Tomáš
PY - 2017
TI - An Authentic Exhibition : Authentic and Fictional Native American Representations in the Wild West
KW - Fictionality
KW - Authenticity
KW - Native Americans
KW - Wild West
N2 - The last few decades of the 19th century in the USA saw a rapid growth in interest in Native American cultural practices and the history of interaction between the domineering and original populations - as a part of the development of the Western as a genre. As a result, a number of fictionalized stories of encounters, such as battles, between the two ethnic groups were published as fiction and performed as live shows. A development in the frontier led to several paradoxes: the same audiences on the one hand feared perpetrators of historical crimes and on the other hand enjoyed re-enactments of these events - performed by the same actual participants in them; an understanding of an "authentic" Indian became a product of a fictional construct of an idealized character type, and thus "authentic" and "fictional" representations often blurred, as much as fiction often beat authenticity. In my talk, I will discuss how the entertainment of the era present a challenge to our understanding of the boundary between an authentic and fictionalized representation of actual events.
ER -
KAČER, Tomáš. An Authentic Exhibition : Authentic and Fictional Native American Representations in the Wild West. In \textit{Fictionality as Concept and Literary Practice, 24. 2. 2017, University of Stockholm, Sweden}. 2017.
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