Description
The South, broadly defined, has been and continues to be a crucial locus of American Indian writing. Ranging from 17th-century captivity narratives to ealy 21st-century Native literature, history, and criticism, this study rewrites the literary history of the South by offering the most thorough and detailed map available of a freqently overlooked Native Southern literary ground. It demonstrates that older paradigms--of, for example, a biracial South or a Christ-haunted South or a South preoccupied by memories of the Confederacy--need to be supplanted by Native-centered approaches that more accurately situate both the catastrophe of Indian removal and the longstanding historical and literary presence of American Indian literatures and cultures in the South.
