Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause

by Melanie Benson Taylor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340669
• ISBN13: 9780820340661
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"