To all:
Well, the final results seem to be in given the silence on the list
regarding this topic. So, in the spirit of sharing, I've compiled the
suggestions to distribute to all of you with an interest. I've grouped them
primarily by geographic area if they refer to this earthly world or its
"alternate" states. I say that only because I've also included a separate
science fiction category for the otherwordly sorts of encounters, since that
surely sparked a few minds out there. I have only edited this list to
remove the general "archaeology in fiction" category if the book wasn't
really about "culture contact" or its related forms per se. Same goes for
some novels about general "American history".
I cannot speak for the quality or appropriateness of any of these since
several of them are new to me, but it is surely a list that we can all use
to generate class ideas, fill our leisure reading times, etc. Finally, I
draw your attention to those entries below with a double-asterisk beside
them -- these come highly recommended either by quality or by quantity of
"votes" for them. Feel free to comment or add to this list for a second
round of discussion.
Here's to a happy holiday/winter/solstice season for you all.
Steve
Stephen Silliman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Office: 617-287-6854
Fax: 617-287-6857
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FICTIONAL (and a few other) ACCOUNTS OF CULTURE CONTACT AND COLONIALISM
North America
Attanasio, A.A. / "Ink from the New Moon" (Dozois, Gardner, and Stanley
Schmidt [eds.] Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History)
**Barth, John / The Sot-Weed Factor
Harrigan, Lana / Acoma: A Novel of Conquest
Hudson, Charles / Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
Hudson, Joyce Rockwood / Apalachee
Michener, James / Centennial
**Moore, Brian / Black Robe
Thom, James Alexander / Panther in the Sky
Thom, James Alexander / The Red Heart
Thom, James Alexander / Sign-Talker : The Adventure of George Drouillard on
the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Turtledove, Harry / A Different Flesh (Homo erectus colonization of N
America)
Waldo, Anna Lee / Sacajewa
Mesoamerica
Card, Orson Scott / Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
(1997)
de Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez / La Historía de Nuevo México (translated by
Miguel Encinias et al.)
Jennings, Gary / Azteca
Peters, Daniel / The Luck of Huemac
Peters, Daniel / Tikal
South America
Llosa, Mario Vargas / The Storyteller
Peters, Daniel / Incas
Pacific
Michener, James / Hawaii
Stevenson, Robert Louis / The Beach of Falesá
Australia
**Keneally, Thomas / The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (film and book)
Marshall, James Vance / Walkabout
Thiele, Colin / Storm Boy
Author currently unknown / We of the Never Never
Africa
**Achebe, Chinua / Things Fall Apart
Boateng, Yaw M. / The Return
**Coetzee, J. M. / Dusklands
Coetzee, J. M. / Waiting for the Barbarians
**Conrad, Joseph / Heart of Darkness
Dunn, Ross / The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Gordimer, Natalie / titles?
Haggard, H. R. / She
Kingsley, Mary / Travels in West Africa
Kingsolver, Barbara / The Poisonwood Bible
Stanley, Henry Morton / In Darkest Africa
India
Dunn, Ross / The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Forrester, E. M. / A Passage to India
Kipling, Rudyard / Plain Tales from the Hills
"Miss Youghal's Sais"
"The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case"
"Tod's Amendment"
Kipling, Rudyard / Kim
Wiser, William and Charlotte Wisner / Behind Mud Walls
Europe
Durham, Edith / In High Albania
Rutherford, Edward / London
Rutherford, Edward / Sarum
Rutherford, Edward / The Forest
Science Fiction
Card, Orson Scott / Speaker for the Dead
Cherryh, C. J. / Foreigner: A Novel of First Contact
Elgin, Suzette / Native Tongue
Kurten, Bjorn / Dance of the Tiger (early humans)
LeGuin, Ursula K. / Left Hand of Darkness
LeGuin, Ursula K. / Rocannon's World
Wells, H. G. / War of the Worlds
Non-Fiction Noteworthy Mentions
Broker, Ignatia / Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative (North America,
non-fiction narrative)
Hochschild, Adam / King Leopold's Ghost (Africa, non-fiction)
MOVIES
North America
"1492, Conquest of Paradise"
** "Black Robe"
"Dances with Wolves"
"The Education of Little Tree"
"Geronimo"
"The Last of the Mohicans" (1936 and 1992)
"Son of the Morning Star"
Central/South America
"Cabeza De Vaca"
** "The Mission"
Australia
"Walkabout" (Nicolas Roeg)
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