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The Indian in American Southern Literature
Contributor(s): Taylor, Melanie Benson (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108495311     ISBN-13: 9781108495318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $97.85  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 810.935
LCCN: 2019045601
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.28 lbs) 300 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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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.
 
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