Description: A collection of essays about Indigeneity and horror in cinema, literature, and beyond.
Review Quotes:
Horror and Indigeneity is a must-read for scholars, students, filmmakers, and horror fans everywhere. It makes a major contribution to the fast-growing field of Indigenous horror studies while providing context and meaning for authors, producers, practitioners, and audiences alike. Through fifteen fascinating chapters, this book explores the spectrum of Indigenous representation across time and genres, first unpacking the history of the tropes of the "uncivilized Native," the "Indian burial ground," and "the merciless Savage" as they have played out in literature, film, and television over more than a century, before delving into the trajectory of Indigenous counternarratives of colonialism-as-monster. Through interviews and chapters exploring the slashers, dramas, documentaries, mysteries, and thrillers that have featured spirits, mutants, zombies, windigos, ghosts, and other fearsome figures, this book unsettles the horror genre and answers the question: Who are the real savages we should fear?
--Heather Igloliorte, coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada