Critique: A collective work of impressively informed and informative scholarship, "Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the
Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian" illuminates the not-so-new Indian being formed in the public's consciousness by and through casino gaming.
construction ofthe
noble savage as a racialized, sexualized figure who,
To come to the point at once, I beg to say that 1 have not the least belief in the
Noble Savage. I consider him a prodigious nuisance, and an enormous superstition.
Journeys to the Polar areas, to the Far East, and the Americas are in a chapter, as well as the slavery and its aftermath, and the exotic other, or
noble savage, as shown in circuses and exhibitions.
The classic racist literary and anthropological theme of the
noble savage is at the center of Mutu's work entitled Le
Noble Savage (2006), a long (91% x 54) vertical collage on Mylar.
In the suit, filed against Lionsgate Entertainment and Summit Entertainment, Between the Lines alleges that the films perpetuate racial stereotypes -- specifically, 'one-dimensional stereotypes about Native Americans and indigenous culture through the depiction of the character Jacob Black as a '
noble savage', 'bloodthirsty warrior' and 'sexual predator'.'As for the perversion, the lawsuit points out that the Twilight films centre 'around the lustful relationship between a 17-year-old girl, Bella Swan, and a male character, Edward Cullen, who is nearly 100 years her senior'.
Specifically, Chasing Shakespeare employs the stock "
Noble Savage" motif when addressing the religious aspects of the main character's family and culture.
Enlightenment ideas of heroism were at stake--as was Rousseau's concept of the '
noble savage'
In saying this, Chagnon outraged two overlapping groups: the large number of anthropologists of that generation whose intellectual roots were in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, and people who feared that primitive groups would be more vulnerable to exploitation by the mass societies around them if they lost the protective myth of the peaceful,
noble savage.
Creating an idea of the
noble savage in his work, his photographs prove quite iconic.
His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, Mademoiselle, the
Noble Savage and other publications.