The Indian in American Southern Literature

by Melanie Benson Taylor

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108495311
• ISBN13: 9781108495318
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"