The Indian in American Southern Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian in American Southern Literature write by Melanie Benson Taylor. This book was released on 2020-07-16. The Indian in American Southern Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.
Reconstructing the Native South
Reconstructing the Native South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing the Native South write by Melanie Benson Taylor. This book was released on 2011. Reconstructing the Native South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South—literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation, purity, and violence. Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal and colonial devastation, what remains—for Native and non-Native southerners—to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian “lost cause”? Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Native American Literature write by Melanie Benson Taylor. This book was released on 2020-09-17. The Cambridge History of Native American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.
Disturbing Indians
Disturbing Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disturbing Indians write by Annette Trefzer. This book was released on 2007. Disturbing Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disturbing Indians describes how William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.
The Indian in American Southern Literature
The Indian in American Southern Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian in American Southern Literature write by Melanie Benson Taylor. This book was released on 2020-07-16. The Indian in American Southern Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
