The Indian in American Southern literature

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    • Taylor, Melanie Benson

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The Indian in American Southern literature

Melanie Benson Taylor

Cambridge University Press, 2020

  • : hardback

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Summary: "The South's obsession with the Civil War is rivaled only by its obsession with Indians-a bold claim that few, at first, would believe. Grits, God, country music-surely, any number of such iconic southern staples would be likelier contenders. Yet, largely unspoken but arguably as ubiquitous, the "Indian" saturates regional memory, place names, earthworks, sacred sites, folktales, cuisine, mascots, songs, and stories. These "ghosts are everywhere," historian James Taylor Carson observes, "and yet are rarely remembered for what they bespeak-an ancestry." Not just the kind of genealogy scratched into family Bibles throughout the region, where, according to a 1996 study by two eminent historians, a staggering "40 percent of Southerners claimed Native ancestry ... [which is] considerably more than the 22 percent who claim descent from a Confederate soldier.""--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 239-260

Includes index

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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.

目次

  • Introduction. Once removed: genealogies of an Indian imaginary
  • 1. Doom and deliverance: William Faulkner's dialectical Indians
  • 2. Confederate spirits: Katherine Anne Porter's bewitching Indians
  • 3. The dark eye: Barry Hannah's terminal Indians
  • Conclusion. The puppet show is not over
  • Bibliography.

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