"Modern" America through traditional cyclic principle

Abstract

This paper opens the question of colonial politics and postcolonial criticism. Although the story tends to be rated as a „romantic“ I rather follow aspects and symbols that add higher values to this book and adaptation as well. There, I pay attention to a “cyclic principle“ that is connected to the traditional native American narration. As Martin Heidegger said: “In the circle is hidden a positive possibility of the most primordial kind of knowing“. Cyclic principle presented through the narration and aslo through the visual representation of an addaptation shifts then our attention from values presented by American soldiers “as colonisers“ to those of Native Americans hidden in the circle...