The Indian in American Southern literature / Melanie Benson Taylor, Dartmouth College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Melanie Benson, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Taylor, Melanie Benson, The Indian in American Southern literature

ISBN:

9781108495318

1108495311

OCLC:

1124531766