Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths

Lenhardt, Corinna

dc.contributor.author	Lenhardt, Corinna	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-03T15:25:20Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-03T15:25:20Z
dc.date.issued	2016-11-23	en
dc.identifier.issn	2083-2931	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20468
dc.description.abstract	Drawing on American Indian myths and folklore that previous scholarship has placed into direct relationship to the Anglo-European vampire narrative, and on recent U.S. mainstream commodifications of these myths, my paper traces and contextualizes the two oppositional yet intimately linked narratives of American Indian vampirism ensuing today: the commodified image of the “Indian” vampire and the renegotiated vampire tropes created by American Indian authors and filmmakers.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Text Matters;6	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
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dc.title	Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths	en
dc.page.number	195-212	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Münster	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2084-574X
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/texmat-2016-0012	en

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