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SUMMARY: “Winnetou\, White Innocence\, and Settler Time” by Dr. Maureen Gal
lagher
DESCRIPTION: In this virtual event\, Dr. Maureen Gallagher (Australian Nati
onal University) critically examines cinematic adaptations of Karl May’s or
iginal 1893 trilogy Winnetou. This event is co-sponsored by the Waterloo Ce
nter for German Studies.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: In this virtual event\, Dr. Maureen Gallag
her (Australian National University) critically examines cinematic adaptati
ons of Karl May’s original 1893 trilogy Winnetou. This event is co-sponsore
d by the Waterloo Center for German Studies.
View the recording of th
is talk here (access passcode 7uZA#&+e): https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/B-wEjzRp
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Title: “Winnetou\, White
Innocence\, and Settler Time” by Dr. Maureen Gallagher (Australian National
University)
Abstract: Proclaiming “every generation
has its Winnetou\,” German network RTL ushered in the return of Winnetou t
o German television with a big-budget film trilogy\, Winnetou–Der Mythos Le
bt. This talk analyzes this 2016 Winnetou film trilogy in dialogue with the
1960s West German westerns and Karl May’s original 1893 novel using concep
ts from settler colonial studies\, Indigenous studies\, and critical race t
heory to show how Winnetou centers whiteness. In the new Winnetou\, full of
nostalgic call-backs to the 1960s film westerns\, the blood brotherhood re
lationship between white German Old Shatterhand and Mescalero Apache Winnet
ou becomes a way of forging connections not only across cultures but across
temporal lines\, allowing for the imposition of settler time onto Indigeno
us persons and the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty and survival. Understa
nding the blood brotherhood within Winnetou as a kind of settler adoption f
antasy allows us to understand how Winnetou centers a narrative of German i
nnocence and reinscribes fantasies of white conquest in the American West.<
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Bio
: Maureen O. Gallagher is a Lecturer in German Studies at Australi
an National University. She holds an MA from the University of Nebraska and
a PhD in German Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her
research interests in German Studies are in the areas of gender studies\, c
ritical race theory and critical whiteness studies\, and postcolonialism an
d decolonization. Recent publications have focused on inclusive and decolon
ial pedagogy\, race and gender in German colonial literature\, and First Wo
rld War literature\, and she is currently working on a book manuscript on w
hiteness in Wilhelmine German youth literature and culture based on her dis
sertation\, which was awarded the 2016 Women in German dissertation prize.
She is also on the authoring team of the online\, open access German curric
ulum Grenzenlos Deutsch\, which has been supported by a grant from the Nati
onal Endowment for the Humanities.
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