(Un)Following in Winnetou's Footsteps

Introduction:(Why) Is Europe Still Following in Winnetou's Footsteps?.- Indianthusiasm and Indigenous Contacts: A Very Personal German Perspective.- A Separation of Sameness: (East) German Indianthusiasm, Ostalgie, and Kent Monkman's Intervention.- "We Were Indians First, Before We Became Croats": "Playing Indian" on the European Frontier.- Croatian Winnetou: Locations, Memories, Cultural Legacy, Ethical Issues.- Alalá all'Indiano! Native Americans in Fascist Italy: Useful Characters from Dime Novel Foes to "Natural Leaders"' against Anglo-American Imperialism.- Lakota Dandies in the Eternal City: Indigenous Travelers Chief Iron Tail and Jacob Istá Ská.- Constructions of North American Indigeneity in Contemporary Polish Non-Fiction.- Becoming White Otter: Constructing Whiteness between Canada and Czechoslovakia.- Winnetou in Czech Comics.- "We're Still Here": Interview with Bruce Sinclair.- Erasing the Footsteps That Lead Astray.

Sanja Runtic is Professor of American literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of American and Canadian studies, Native American literature (the topic of her Ph.D. dissertation and major publications), Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, and women's studies. She is the co-author of Suvremena knjizevnost americkih starosjedilaca [Contemporary Native American literature] (2013) and author of Vrijeme bu enja: (De)konstrukcija zenskog subjektiviteta u americkoj fikcionalnoj prozi na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljece [The awakening: The (de)construction of the female self in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American fiction] (2019). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Arizona (2003- 2004), a Research Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (2002) and Centro Studi Americani (2022), and Erasmus+ Fellow at the University of Central Oklahoma (2017) and Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (2023).

Jana Maresová, Ph.D., completed her Ph.D. at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and worked as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is a member of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies and of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Her main research interests are contemporary Canadian Indigenous fiction, oral storytelling, and Indigenous epistemologies and their reflections in Indigenous writing. In her publications and presentations, she explores contemporary Indigenous writing as a continuation of oral storytelling practices and the interconnections of Indigenous and Central European cultures. She has been awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship by the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada (2014-2015), the