The black Indian in American literature
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The black Indian in American literature
(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-128) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to the Contemporary era, Byars-Nichols re-centers a marginalized group challenges stereotypes and conventional ways of thinking about race and culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Within Our Borders and On Our Borders: Negotiating Shared Black and Native Histories 1. Assuming the Habit of the Country: John Marrant's Narrative and Playing Indian 2. Domesticated Savagery: Blackness and Indigeneity in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Elizabeth Stoddard's Temple House 3. On Precarious Footing: William Faulkner's Sam Fathers and the Specter of Slavery 4. Black Nationalism and Native Separatism Unhinged: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon 5. The First Black Indian: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Conclusion: Toward a Black Indian Poetics and Politics
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