The Indian in American Southern literature, Melanie Benson Taylor
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The Indian in American Southern literature, Melanie Benson Taylor
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Indian in American Southern literature
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1130325036
Responsibility statement
Melanie Benson Taylor
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Summary
Indians are everywhere and nowhere in the US South. Cloaked by a rhetoric of disappearance after Indian Removal, actual southeastern tribal groups are largely invisible but immortalized in regional mythologies, genealogical lore, romanticized stereotypes, and unpronounceable place names. These imaginary 'Indians' compose an ideological fiction inextricable from that of the South itself. Often framed as hindrances to the Cotton Kingdom, Indians were in fact active participants in the plantation economy and chattel slavery before and after Removal. Dialectical tropes of Indigeneity linger in the white southern imagination in order to both conceal and expose the tangle of land, labor, and race as formative, disruptive categories of being and meaning. This book is not, finally, about the recovery of the region's lost Indians, but a reckoning with their inaccessible traces, ambivalent functions, and the shattering implications of their repressed significance for modern southern identity.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Once Removed: Genealogies of an Indian Imaginary -- Doom and Deliverance: William Faulkner's Dialectical Indians -- Confederate Spirits: Katherine Anne Porter's Bewitching Indians -- The Dark Eye: Barry Hannah's Terminal Indians -- Conclusion: The Puppet Show Is Not Over
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